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The recent push by big business in favor of a more socially and environmentally conscious corporate-governance model is not just empty rhetoric. With the public losing trust in business and markets, it is now in everyone’s interest to reform the system so that it delivers prosperity for the many, rather than the few.

It doesn’t take much to spark corrections in vulnerable economies and markets, and big shocks to highly vulnerable systems are a recipe for crisis. That’s why the vulnerability of today’s global economy—reflected in real economies, financial asset prices and misguided monetary policy—needs to be taken seriously.

Mohamed A. El-Erian warns that today’s positive macroeconomic and financial conditions could be the calm before the storm.

Although there is increasing support for the idea that central banks should actively contribute to the fight against climate change, monetary policymakers have no mandate to do so, and for good reason. Tackling climate change is—and must remain—the responsibility of elected governments and parliaments.

Health care, immigration and trade have been hot topics during the campaign and are likely to come up during the fifth Democratic debate.

Dimensional Fund Advisors’ David Booth on why you should change the way you think about investing.