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Barry EichengreenThe Japan Times |
ATHENS – Last month’s BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, was, like all summits, heavy on photo ops. And it yielded a second act that was similarly...
BERKELEY – Mario Draghi’s report on the state of the European economy is meant as a wake-up call. But will Draghi’s alarm be heard, or will...
The year 1979 was a pivotal one in Sino-American relations. On a historic visit to the United States, Deng Xiaoping, China’s paramount leader, met...
SHANGHAI – The year 1979 was a pivotal one in Sino-American relations. On a historic visit to the United States, Deng Xiaoping, China’s paramount...
Every U.S. presidential election is consequential, but American voters face an unusually weighty decision in 2024. The outcome will have implications...
TOKYO – Every US presidential election is consequential, but American voters face an unusually weighty decision in 2024. The outcome will have...
AIX-EN-PROVENCE – In July 1944, exactly 80 years ago, representatives of 44 countries met in an obscure New Hampshire village to negotiate the...
LONDON – One of the more amusing exercises on the economic calendar is the International Monetary Fund’s annual review of the United States. Yet...
ISTANBUL – The dollar has strengthened sharply in recent months, against Asian currencies in particular. A rising crescendo of apocalyptic financial...
HONG KONG – The gap between productivity growth in the United States and Europe paints a stark and, for Europeans, depressing picture. In the two...
BERKELEY – Frontier markets are back. Several African countries have recently returned to global financial markets, placing foreign-currency bonds...
The debt crisis in low-income countries continues to fester. Meanwhile, the international policy community seems to be losing traction on the problem....
BERKELEY – For precisely three years, the economics profession has been collectively fixated on inflation. February 2021, exactly 36 months ago, was...
FLORENCE – It has become fashionable of late to compare US President Joe Biden in 2023 to Jimmy Carter in 1979. Just as the events of 1979 doomed...
PARIS – The debt crisis in low-income countries continues to fester. Meanwhile, the international policy community seems to be losing traction on...