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The American Working Man Still Isn’t Working

Prime-age men’s non-employment in the United States has been creeping upward for decades—from a low of four percent in the 1950s to almost 14 percent today.

Jason Furman

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Labor Sep 19, 2019 Snapshot

The American Working Man Still Isn’t Working

Prime-age men’s non-employment in the United States has been creeping upward for decades—from a low of four percent in the 1950s to almost 14 percent today.

Jason Furman

Monetary Issues Sep 10, 2019 Snapshot

The Self-Inflicted Recession

The Next Downturn Will Be Political—and Tough to Escape

Jared Bernstein

Monetary Issues Aug 28, 2019 Snapshot

How Not to Fight a Currency War

Branding China a currency manipulator at a time when it is not actually manipulating its currency will only make it harder to take a tough line against real...

Brad W. Setser

Monetary Issues Aug 20, 2019 Snapshot

History Repeats Itself in Zimbabwe

Why Robert Mugabe’s ruinous legacy will live on as long as his party is in power.

Tendai Biti

Monetary Issues Jul 29, 2019 Snapshot

Will Facebook’s Libra Change the Way the World Banks?

Facebook's new cryptocurrency, Libra, is both novel and potentially disruptive. With time, Libra could become a gigantic shadow bank distinct from, yet connected to,...

Kevin Werbach

Monetary Issues Apr 23, 2019 Snapshot

Why Trump Should Leave the Fed Alone

Stephen Moore would be a disastrous pick for the Federal Reserve.

Alan S. Blinder

Trump and Jerome Powell at the White House, November 2017

Finance September/October 2018 Essay

The Forgotten History of the Financial Crisis

The true story of 2008 forces a question about the future of financial globalization: How will a multipolar world that has moved beyond the transatlantic structures of...

Adam Tooze

A styrofoam bull at the Frankfurt stock exchange, September 2008.

Monetary Issues Jul 3, 2018 Snapshot

U.S. Deficits Are Hurting Emerging Markets

Why Argentina and Turkey Are Feeling the Pain

Brad Setser

A protest against the government's negotiations with the International Monetary Fund, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2018.

Monetary Issues Jan 22, 2018 Snapshot

A New Financial Geopolitics?

What might be the fault lines in the financial world that could precipitate another crisis, and possible realignments, in the global monetary order?

Finance Jan 22, 2018 Snapshot

A New Financial Geopolitics?

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...

Mark Blyth and Sylvia Maxfield

Finance Jan 12, 2018 Snapshot

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...

Kathleen R. McNamara

Monetary Issues Jan 11, 2018 Snapshot

How the Eurozone Might Split

For reasons of both long-term sustainability and short-term politics, the euro is not out of the woods yet.

Mark Blyth and Simon Tilford

Euro coins on display in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, June 2015.

Finance Jan 1, 2018 Snapshot

Can China Internationalize the RMB?

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...

Saori N. Katada

A woman holds 100-RMB notes at the Bank of China tower in Hong Kong, February 2016.

Economics Dec 19, 2017 Snapshot

China and the International Monetary System

China's interest in the IMF's Special Drawing Right says more about the country's national identity than about Beijing's interest in challenging the dollar-led...

Hongying Wang

Chinese banknotes in Beijing, July 2011.

Finance Dec 6, 2017 Snapshot

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

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen testifies at the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, February 2014.

Monetary Issues Dec 1, 2017 Postscript

A Reckless Tax Plan

As the Republican tax bill lurches toward enactment, many of its major features remain in flux.

Alex Raskolnikov

From the Archives Sep 26, 2017 Snapshot

A Fiscal Union for the Eurozone

A fiscal union for the eurozone is the only way to save the common currency—and the EU.

Pierpaolo Barbieri and Shahin Vallée

At the headquarters of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, September 2013.

Monetary Issues Jun 16, 2017 Snapshot

Modi’s Money Madness

Modi’s demonetization policy has proved to be one of the most disruptive experiments in recent economic history, and one from which his administration now risks...

James Crabtree

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Mumbai, December 2016.

From the Archives May 16, 2017 Snapshot

Trump's Tax Plan for the One Percent

A tax plan that U.S. President Donald Trump produced in April suggested the biggest tax cuts for rich Americans in the United States’ history—and was bad news for the...

Andrea Louise Campbell

Monetary Issues Apr 17, 2017 Snapshot

The Lure of Europe's Tax Havens

Why Tax Reform Is Slowing Down

Alexander Saeedy

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The American Working Man Still Isn’t Working

The Self-Inflicted Recession

How Not to Fight a Currency War

History Repeats Itself in Zimbabwe

Will Facebook’s Libra Change the Way the World Banks?

Why Trump Should Leave the Fed Alone

The Forgotten History of the Financial Crisis

U.S. Deficits Are Hurting Emerging Markets

A New Financial Geopolitics?

A New Financial Geopolitics?

The Euro in Decline?

How the Eurozone Might Split

Can China Internationalize the RMB?

China and the International Monetary System

Bring Politics Back to Monetary Policy

A Reckless Tax Plan

A Fiscal Union for the Eurozone

Modi’s Money Madness

Trump's Tax Plan for the One Percent

The Lure of Europe's Tax Havens

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