Joseph E. Stiglitz
The Price of Inequality
NEW YORK – America likes to think of itself as a land of opportunity, and others view it in much the same light. But, while we can all think…
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As the US election campaign heats up, the most important issue for voters will most likely be whether the economy is recovering fast enough. Have fiscal stimulus and monetary expansion generated growth, or merely run up more debt and placed price stability at risk? Project Syndicate’s economists assess the health and future prospects of the world’s largest economy.
America's Precarious Recovery
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Mohamed A. El-Erian
Is America Healing Fast Enough?
NEWPORT BEACH – Six internal factors suggest that the United States’ economy is slowly healing. For some observers, these factors were deeme…
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Michael Boskin
Threading the Fiscal Needle
PALO ALTO – Elections often turn on the state of the economy, especially in hard times. When growth and jobs are down, voters throw out incu…
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Sylvester Eijffinger, Edin Mujagic
The Coming Fed Fight
TILBURG – There is no longer much doubt that Mitt Romney will be the Republican Party’s nominee to challenge President Barack Obama in the U…
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Laura Tyson
The Corporate-Tax Conundrum
BERKELEY – The United States now has the highest statutory corporate-income tax rate among developed countries. Even after various deduction…
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Martin Feldstein
The Economy and the Presidency
CAMBRIDGE – America’s presidential election is now just six months away. If history is a reliable guide, the outcome will depend significant…
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Daniel Gros
The Big Easing
BRUSSELS – More than three years after the financial crisis that erupted in 2008, who is doing more to bring about economic recovery, Europe…
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Laura Tyson
Are US Multinationals Abandoning America?
BERKELEY – At a recent conference in Washington, DC, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said that US policymakers should focus on produ…
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Martin Feldstein
Fed Policy and Inflation Risk
CAMBRIDGE – During the past four years, the United States Federal Reserve has added enormous liquidity to the US commercial banking system, …
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Mohamed A. El-Erian
The American Recovery
NEWPORT BEACH – The United States has gone through an arduous period of intervention and rehabilitation since the global financial crisis in…
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