Germany is a fascinating role model. The Germans have maintained their manufacturing edge despite being a high-tax, high-regulation economy. Why? Because the government really set about ensuring that it maintained funding for technical training, technical advancements and programs. It made a concerted effort to retain high-end, complex manufacturing -- the kind of BMW model, if you will. And they've done… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share
As the United States continues its slow but steady recovery from the depths of the financial crisis, nobody actually wants a massive austerity package to shock the economy back into recession, and so the odds have always been high that the game of budgetary chicken will stop short of disaster. Looming past the cliff, however, is a deep chasm that… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share
It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
“The political history of the twentieth century is the story of greater and more direct political participation. And success kept expanding democracy's scope. Whatever… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
“For years many in the oil-rich states argued that their enormous wealth would bring modernizations. They pointed to the impressive appetites of Saudis and Kuwaitis for things Western, from McDonald's hamburgers to Rolex watches to Cadillac limousines. but importing Western good is easy; importing the inner stuffing of modern society - a free market, political parties, accountability, the rule of… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share
It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism is now… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
If you listen to the political discourse in America today, you would think that all our problems have been caused by the Mexicans of… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two equally pernicious… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
