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Robert Skidelsky

The Rise of the Robots

LONDON – What impact will automation – the so-called “rise of the robots” – have on wages and employment over the coming decades? Nowadays, …
Howard Davies

Financial Regulators’ Global Variety Show

PARIS – In the early phases of the financial crisis, it was fashionable to argue that the United States’ system of regulation needed a funda…
Haruhiko Kuroda

India’s Growth Crossroads

MANILA – As the slowdown in the world’s major industrial economies drags on, growth in developing Asia is being affected. A serious burden w…
Jaswant Singh

The Road to Asian Unity

NEW DELHI – Asia’s lack of institutions to ameliorate regional tensions is often lamented. But greater Asian unity may be arising by the bac…

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Luigi Zingales May 31, 2013

We, the Corporations?

CHICAGO – You would think that 600,000 comments on a petition would be sufficient to bring an issue to the top of the US Securities and Exch…
Simon Johnson Apr. 25, 2013

Big Banks’ Tall Tales

WASHINGTON, DC – There are two competing narratives about recent financial-reform efforts and the dangers that very large banks now pose aro…
Andrew Sheng, Xiao Geng Apr. 22, 2013

Lending in the Dark

HONG KONG – The proliferation of China’s opaque, loosely regulated (or unregulated) shadow-banking system has been raising fears of possible…
Martin N. Baily, Susan Lund Apr. 12, 2013

Financial Globalization in Reverse?

WASHINGTON, DC – For three decades, financial globalization had seemed inevitable. New information technologies made it possible to conduct …
Raghuram Rajan Mar. 27, 2013

Love the Bank, Hate the Banker

NEW DELHI – Public discourse is rarely nuanced. The public’s attention span is short, and subtleties tend to confuse. Better to take a clear…
Simon Johnson Feb. 25, 2013

The Political Importance of Elizabeth Warren

WASHINGTON, DC – Financial reform in the United States and worldwide hangs in the balance. The problems that brought us the terrible crisis …
Howard Davies Feb. 22, 2013

Financial Regulators’ Global Variety Show

PARIS – In the early phases of the financial crisis, it was fashionable to argue that the United States’ system of regulation needed a funda…
Luigi Zingales Jan. 28, 2013

Financial Stars Behind Bars?

CHICAGO – Hardly a day goes by without a settlement between a bank and a US government agency or regulator. The latest one is between Bank o…
Barry Eichengreen Jan. 10, 2013

Why No Glass-Steagall II?

MANILA – Eighty years ago this month, Ferdinand Pecora, the cigar-chomping former assistant district attorney for New York City, was appoint…
Howard Davies Dec. 27, 2012

Bankers with Borders

LONDON – When Mark Carney replaces Mervyn King as Governor of the Bank of England in July 2013, the world will be deprived of King’s witty p…

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