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– Headlines around the world last week trumpeted a watershed moment for the global economy. As the Financial Times put it, “China poised to pass US...
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– Headlines around the world last week trumpeted a watershed moment for the global economy. As the Financial Times put it, “China poised to pass US...
– The US Congress has now carelessly blocked a long-awaited reform of the International Monetary Fund. That would be bad enough if it were...
– Far too few governments rein in their countries’ bloated welfare states before disaster strikes. As a result, some citizens eventually suffer the...
– The start of 2014 marks ten years since we began fretting about global imbalances, and specifically about the chronic trade and current-account imbalances...
– For the past six years, I have been skeptical about the standard optimistic forecasts of the pace of US economic growth in the...
– The global economy had another difficult year in 2013. The advanced economies’ below-trend growth continued, with output rising at an average annual rate...
– Now that Janet Yellen is to be Chair of the US Federal Reserve Board, attention has turned to the candidate to succeed her...
– A French business magazine recently ranked IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde the most internationally influential French person alive – well ahead of President François Hollande....
– It has been three years since the outbreak of the euro crisis, and only an inveterate optimist would say that the worst is...
– Recently, newspaper headlines declared that Greece would have a balanced budget for 2013 as a whole. The news came as quite a shock:...