Eduardo Porter

New York City and Mexico City

Columnist and editorial board member

Education: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, BA in physics; Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, MS in quantum fields and fundamental forces

Eduardo Porter was born in Phoenix and grew up in the United States, Mexico and Belgium. He came to The Washington Post following a year as a columnist at Bloomberg Opinion and nearly two decades at the New York Times, where he was a member of the editorial board and wrote the Economic Scene column from 2012 to 2018. Eduardo began his career in journalism in 1991 as a financial reporter for Notimex, a Mexican news agency, in Mexico City. He spent four years as Notimex's correspondent in Tokyo and London and, in 1996, moved to São Paulo, Brazil, as editor of América Economía, a business magazi
Latest from Eduardo Porter

Trump can’t bully the world out of doing business with China

The United States will need carrots as well as sticks to compete.

November 26, 2024
Argentine President Javier Milei shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G-20 summit in Rio de Janeiro on Nov. 18. (Antonio Lacerda/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

There’s something scarier than rising costs behind Trump’s victory

A broader dissatisfaction with liberal market democracy is churning up authoritarianism around the world.

November 19, 2024
A supporter holds up a sign as Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte on July 24. (Logan Cyrus/AFP)

Americans ordered up Donald Trump. The world will foot the bill.

Furious about inequality, voters have turned against globalization. And poorer countries will suffer.

November 12, 2024
Donald Trump watches a video screen at a campaign rally in Salem, Virginia, on Nov. 2. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Yes, America can fail

A Nobel Prize-winning economist explains how it can happen here.

November 5, 2024
Economist Daron Acemoglu, 2024 Nobel Prize winner in economics, speaks to the media during a conference in Athens on Oct. 14. (Petros Giannakouris/AP)

A Trump victory would make America poor again

If the GOP nominee’s economic agenda is enacted, it could trigger a depression.

October 22, 2024
Donald Trump answers questions during an interview at the Economic Club of Chicago on Oct. 15. (Joel Angel Juarez/Reuters)

Dockworkers are trying to stop automation. They will fail.

Unions must help shape the future of work to ensure the best outcomes for the most people.

October 15, 2024
Trucks line up to enter the Port of Miami after the union representing 45,000 striking U.S. dockworkers reached a deal to suspend a three-day strike on Oct. 4. (Marta Lavandier/AP)

Mexico is facing an emergency. Washington must help.

Simply hunting down narcotics traffickers only exacerbates the violence south of the border.

October 8, 2024
Soldiers guard a scene after a confrontation between municipal police and gunmen, in Culiacan, Mexico, on Sept. 21. (Jesus Bustamante/Reuters)

Whom does Mexico favor in November?

Given its complicated and sometimes difficult history with the United States, it’s not obvious.

October 1, 2024
Outgoing Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador shows off his watch, which was later raffled among journalists in attendance, during his final daily conference at the National Palace in Mexico City on Monday. (Alfredo Estrella/AFP)

Corporations are not destroying America

The way the Harris campaign is marshaling economic data paints a misleading picture.

September 24, 2024
A Wall Street sign hangs outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York on Wednesday. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters)

After Trump and Biden, a path toward re-globalization

The world’s ‘middle countries’ need to band together to repair the damage to the global economy.

September 18, 2024
A truck arrives at the Port of Los Angeles in 2021. (Damian Dovarganes/AP)