Dec 14th 2018 Comment Universal Basic Income: The Bad Idea that Won’t Die Making the wage subsidy uniform would target those individuals most at risk of being mechanized out of employment, namely less skilled workers. A column by Barry Eichengreen.
Dec 10th 2018 Comment The Ghost of Brexit Past Brexit constitutes a revolution, and that means it is bound to follow a familiar historical pattern, but the Brexit revolution has been unfolding in a country with little revolutionary tradition. A column by Harold James.
Dec 4th 2018 Comment Will the Kerch Blockade Make Putin Great Again? With few options for rallying public opinion, Putin may well have decided that it is time to «remind» Russians that they are under attack. A column by Andrei Kolesnikov.
Nov 30th 2018 Comment An Agenda for Resolving the US-China Conflict At a time of ever-escalating threats and counter-threats, the imperative of compromise cannot be understated. A column by Stephen S. Roach.
Nov 29th 2018 Comment Brexit and the Global Economy The Brexit process showcases the risks associated with economic and political fragmentation and provides a preview of what awaits an increasingly fractured global economy. A column by Mohamed A. El-Erian.
Nov 27th 2018 Comment The Global Impact of a Chinese Recession When the inevitable downturn of the Chinese economy arrives, the world is likely to discover that China’s economy matters even more than most people thought. A column by Kenneth Rogoff.
Nov 21st 2018 Comment Trump’s Protectionist Quagmire All told, Washington's steel tariffs will neither reduce the US current-account deficit nor create more net jobs. A column by Anne O. Krueger
Nov 15th 2018 Comment The Myth of China’s Forced Technology Transfer While the costs to Western companies imposed by the technology-transfer requirement are probably being vastly overstated, so, too, are the benefits that the policy brings to China. A column by Daniel Gros.
Nov 13th 2018 Comment Who Deserves Credit for the Strong US Economy? American presidents, like star athletes in team sports, get both too much credit and too much blame from voters and historians for what happens on their watch. A column by Michael J. Boskin.
Nov 8th 2018 Comment America’s Inflation Risks That could mean that the Fed must contemplate monetary tightening that significantly exceeds the so-called comfort zone of normalization that financial markets are currently discounting. A column by Stephen S. Roach.
Nov 1st 2018 Comment Why Italy is the Latest to Question Policy Orthodoxy In the case of Italy, then, the EU should remain flexible. But Rome must also implement the supply-side changes needed to sustain faster growth in the long term. A column by Mohamed A. El-Erian.
Oct 31st 2018 Comment Falling Share Prices and the Outlook for the US Economy If a recession begins as soon as 2020, the Fed will not be in a position to reduce the federal funds rate significantly. Monetary policy might be unable to combat a downturn. A column by Martin Feldstein.