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The Crisis Next Time

It shouldn’t have taken policymakers as long as it did to relearn what they should have already known about financial crises.

Carmen Reinhart and Vincent Reinhart

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Economics November/December 2018 Essay

The Crisis Next Time

It shouldn’t have taken policymakers as long as it did to relearn what they should have already known about financial crises.

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Finance September/October 2018 Essay

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The Fall and Rise of Matteo Salvini

The new Italian government will last only as long as Matteo Salvini has his way.

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Italy's new government is going to push back against any attempt by outside actors to force it to rein in its ambitions.

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How to Crack Down on Tax Havens

Tax havens enjoy the protection of powerful forces; cracking down on them will be difficult. It can only be done by mobilizing public anger to break up systems rigged...

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After the election of Donald Trump to the presidency, there were wide expectations that the market would respond negatively to his unexpected victory. And yet stock...

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The Euro in Decline?

The populist forces that have emerged throughout the continent challenge the legitimacy of the euro and threaten both the institutional and ideational foundations upon...

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The recent history of how the Japanese yen tried and failed to become the dominant international currency provides a good illustration of the challenges faced by China...

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The markets have done no more than reward U.S. stocks for riding the coattails of global growth.

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Bring Politics Back to Monetary Policy

Decades of appeals to technocratic exceptionalism—the idea that monetary policy should be shielded from democratic oversight—have led to the very politicization of...

Jacqueline Best

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Beware Greeks Bearing Rifts

Despite his largely correct convictions about the Greek debt crisis, Yanis Varoufakis was not an effective politician and he failed to negotiate a better deal with...

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The United States' Problem With Financial Secrecy

The federal government should do more to push back against the states that are helping transform the United States into a global offshore haven.

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China’s ballooning corporate debt remains the number one systemic risk to global economic recovery.

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Donald Trump will usher in a new era of American prosperity, by making the corporate taxes more competitive, reducing regulation, boosting energy production, and...

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Are We Safe Yet?

Sooner or later, the United States will face another major financial crisis. Yet the tools policymakers have for responding are even weaker than they were before the...

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