Mohamed A. El-Erian
America’s Constrained Choice
NEWPORT BEACH – The conventional wisdom about the November presidential election in the United States is only partly correct. Yes, economic …
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On Tuesday, US voters will elect their next president, either incumbent Barack Obama or Republican challenger Mitt Romney. What will the election results mean for America's sputtering economy and geopolitical challenges worldwide?
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Joseph E. Stiglitz
America’s Global Election
NEW YORK – Most people around the world will not be able to vote in the United States’s upcoming presidential election, even though they hav…
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Naomi Wolf
Kill and Let Die
NEW YORK – By a strange but fitting coincidence, US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, held their final deba…
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Jonathan Schell
The New Obama
NEW YORK – After the second debate between US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, Obama’s supporters chorused…
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Stephen S. Roach
A New Low for China Bashing
NEW HAVEN – As America’s election season nears its finish, the debate seems to have come unhinged. Nowhere is that more evident than in the …
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Zaki Laïdi
Obama’s Underachieving Foreign Policy
PARIS – To evaluate an American president’s foreign-policy performance after one term is challenging, given the complex diplomatic and strat…
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Jeffrey Frankel
Four Magic Tricks for Fiscal Conservatives
CAMBRIDGE – The United States is famous for its ability to innovate. Aspiring fiscal conservatives around the world thus might be interested…
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Laura Tyson
Closing America’s Jobs Deficit
BERKELEY – The latest data on employment in the United States confirm that the American economy continues to recover from the Great Recessio…
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Martin Feldstein
Fixing America’s Fiscal Problem
CAMBRIDGE – With America’s elections less than six weeks away, it is time to think seriously about what will be done afterwards to deal with…
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Christopher R. Hill
The US Candidates’ Non-Debate
DENVER – For the uninitiated, especially foreign observers, the United States’ presidential election campaign can seem like an epic narrativ…
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