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Nov 2, 2022
A History of Economic Whac-A-Mole
BERKELEY – The big lesson of the past 60 years of US economic policy, according to former vice chair of the US Federal Reserve and current Princeton University economist
Alan S. Blinder’s new book,
A Monetary
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PUBLIÉ LE08 NOVEMBRE 2022
Thomas Piketty
Let’s say it straight out: it is impossible to seriously fight global warming without a profound redistribution of wealth, both within countries and internationally. Those who claim otherwise are lying to the world. And
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Nov. 11, 2022
Demand, Discombobulation and Prices
By Paul Krugman
So, Democrats did much better in the midterms than most pundits expected, and markets celebrated, with stocks surging.
OK, not really. What sent the stock market soaring on Thursday was a good inflation report, which
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Nov 10, 2022
Don’t Let Geopolitics Kill the World Economy
DANI RODRIK
CAMBRIDGE – At the Communist Party of China’s 20th National Congress last month, the country’s one-man rule under Xi Jinping became fully entrenched. Though communist China has never been a democracy, its post-Mao leaders
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Oct 27, 2022
From Cuban Missiles to Putin’s Crisis
NINA L. KHRUSHCHEVA
NEW YORK – Sixty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world is again facing the specter of a nuclear confrontation. With Russian President Vladimir Putin appearing to be
losing his war in
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Nov. 10, 2022
Two Cheers for the Biden Economy
By Paul Krugman
Why didn’t a bad economy lead to the widely predicted midterm “blood bath” for Democrats?
It’s still unclear which party will end up controlling Congress, but Democrats greatly surpassed normal midterm performance for
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Nov. 9, 2022
Western money and Eastern promises. How the oil shock revived capitalism and ended communism
Branko Milanovic
The turning point in the economic fortunes of the First and Second Worlds happened in the years 1973-75 when oil prices increased by six times (in real terms), economic growth decelerated
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Nov 9, 2022
The Fiscal Cost of Quantitative Easing
DANIEL GROS
ROME – In accumulating massive bond holdings over the course of a decade of quantitative easing (QE), central banks were effectively betting that interest rates would stay low indefinitely. They have lost that wager
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Nov. 7, 2022
A MAGA America Would Be Ugly
By Paul Krugman
If you aren’t feeling a sense of dread on the eve of the midterm elections, you haven’t been paying attention.
We can talk about the conventional stakes of these elections — their implications
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Oct. 20, 2022
Will Gas Prices Doom Democracy?
By Paul Krugman
Will the price of gasoline — a price that has very little to do with which party controls the government — nonetheless determine the outcome of the midterm elections, and quite possibly the fate of
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Oct 24, 2022
China’s Fiscal Challenges
YU YONGDING
BEIJING – When China’s GDP growth is below target, successive governments have relied on the same tool: government spending on infrastructure investment to stimulate the economy. But the success of fiscal stimulus requires getting the details of implementation
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