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Simon Johnson
Boards on Their Backs
WASHINGTON, DC – The recent governance controversy at JPMorgan Chase has masked a much larger issue. Regardless of Jamie Dimon’s victory in …
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Kemal Derviş
Balancing the Technocrats
ISTANBUL – A simplistic (actually, naive) view of markets is that they exist almost in a “state of nature,” and that the best of all worlds …
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Laura Tyson
Why Give Corporations a Tax Break?
BERKELEY – US President Barack Obama has called for additional revenue as part of a balanced plan to reduce future budget deficits. But he i…
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Robin Niblett
Transatlantic Trade-Offs
LONDON – Almost two decades after the idea was first mooted, the United States and the European Union agreed last week to begin negotiating …
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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…
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Michael Spence
Rebalancing the State’s Balance Sheet
MILAN – Until recently, relatively little attention was paid to states’ balance sheets. Measurement and reporting were neglected. Even today…
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Alfred Gusenbauer
The American Comeback Kid
VIENNA – As is customary at the start of a new year, imposing statistics and trend forecasts are being trumpeted worldwide. For example, in …
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Raghuram Rajan
Did the Bankers Do It?
NEW DELHI – Few areas of economic activity in the United States are more politicized than housing finance. Yet the intellectual left has gon…
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Andrew Sheng, Xiao Geng
The Sino-American Mirror
HONG KONG – November was a month of major leadership changes around the world, including Xi Jinping’s confirmation as China’s top official a…
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Alasdair Breckenridge
Life-Saving Killer Drugs
LONDON – The harmful effects of medicines capture headlines worldwide. After all, horror stories about “killer drugs” are easy to sell. But,…
