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![]() Barry EichengreenThe Japan Times |
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...