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Barry EichengreenThe Japan Times |
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...
SINGAPORE – The last two years have been catastrophic for investors in US Treasury bonds. By one measure, 2022 was the worst year for such investors...
MARRAKESH – Industrial policy is back. It is back with a vengeance in the United States, where for decades the dominant ideology and policy...
KAUAI – Is the dollar poised to lose its dominance of global economic and financial transactions? Many commentators apparently think so. Russia...