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Barry Eichengreen

Barry Eichengreen

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An Economic Requiem for the Biden Administration

16.12.2024 30

Project Syndicate

Barry Eichengreen

The Crisis that Germany Needs

10.12.2024 40

Project Syndicate

Barry Eichengreen

The BRICS Currency Charade

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...

14.11.2024 20

Project Syndicate

Barry Eichengreen

Europe’s wake-up call on innovation and competitiveness

24.10.2024 10

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Barry Eichengreen

Europe’s Wake-Up Call

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...

15.10.2024 30

Project Syndicate

Barry Eichengreen

Resetting U.S.-China economic relations

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...

17.09.2024 40

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Barry Eichengreen

Resetting US-China Economic Relations

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...

10.09.2024 50

Project Syndicate

Barry Eichengreen

America’s coming climate election

Every U.S. presidential election is consequential, but American voters face an unusually weighty decision in 2024. The outcome will have implications...

27.08.2024 20

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Barry Eichengreen

America’s Climate Election

TOKYO – Every US presidential election is consequential, but American voters face an unusually weighty decision in 2024. The outcome will have...

12.08.2024 40

Project Syndicate

Barry Eichengreen

Unlocking IMF Reform

AIX-EN-PROVENCE – In July 1944, exactly 80 years ago, representatives of 44 countries met in an obscure New Hampshire village to negotiate the...

17.07.2024 40

Project Syndicate

Barry Eichengreen

America’s Debt Is Both Sustainable and a Problem

LONDON – One of the more amusing exercises on the economic calendar is the International Monetary Fund’s annual review of the United States. Yet...

11.06.2024 30

Project Syndicate

Barry Eichengreen

The Dilemmas of the Dollar

ISTANBUL – The dollar has strengthened sharply in recent months, against Asian currencies in particular. A rising crescendo of apocalyptic financial...

13.05.2024 90

Project Syndicate

Barry Eichengreen

Why Is Europe Losing the Productivity Race?

HONG KONG – The gap between productivity growth in the United States and Europe paints a stark and, for Europeans, depressing picture. In the two...

09.04.2024 90

Project Syndicate

Barry Eichengreen

The Temptation of Frontier Markets

BERKELEY – Frontier markets are back. Several African countries have recently returned to global financial markets, placing foreign-currency bonds...

12.03.2024 40

Project Syndicate

Barry Eichengreen

Developing countries’ never-ending debt crisis

The debt crisis in low-income countries continues to fester. Meanwhile, the international policy community seems to be losing traction on the problem....

01.03.2024 30

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Barry Eichengreen

The Middle Truth in the Inflation Muddle

BERKELEY – For precisely three years, the economics profession has been collectively fixated on inflation. February 2021, exactly 36 months ago, was...

14.02.2024 10

Project Syndicate

Barry Eichengreen

Is Joe Biden Really the New Jimmy Carter?

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...

09.01.2024 10

Project Syndicate

Barry Eichengreen

Developing Countries’ Never-Ending Debt Crisis

PARIS – The debt crisis in low-income countries continues to fester. Meanwhile, the international policy community seems to be losing traction on...

14.12.2023 20

Project Syndicate

Barry Eichengreen

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