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Mahmoud Mohieldin

Getting Cities Right

WASHINGTON, DC – The developing world is experiencing rapid urbanization, with the number of city dwellers set to reach four billion in 2030…
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…
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 …
Hans-Werner Sinn

The Collateral Damage of Europe’s Rescue

MUNICH – The eurozone is now in its sixth year of crisis – and of efforts by the European Central Bank and the international community to en…

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Alexander Friedman Jun. 13, 2013

Copycat Capitalists

ZURICH – It is all too easy to envy China. At current growth rates, the Chinese economy will double in size in only nine years, raising an e…
Jeffrey Frankel Jun. 11, 2013

All Quiet on the Currency Front

CAMBRIDGE – The term “currency wars” is a catchy way of saying “competitive devaluation.” In the wake of the sharp fall in the value of the …
Paola Subacchi Jun. 7, 2013

Central Banking’s New Face

LONDON – A changing of the guard is underway at many of the world’s leading central banks. Haruhiko Kuroda is now installed as the governor …
Allan H. Meltzer Jun. 6, 2013

Quantitative Quicksand

PITTSBURGH – Almost all recoveries from recession have included rapid employment growth – until now. Though advanced-country central banks h…
Shlomo Ben-Ami Jun. 5, 2013

Is the US Losing Latin America?

MADRID – It is a mantra increasingly heard around the world: US power is in decline. And nowhere does this seem truer than in Latin America.…
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…
Stephen S. Roach May 31, 2013

The American Consumer is Not Okay

NEW HAVEN – The spin-doctors are hard at work talking up America’s subpar economic recovery. All eyes are on households. Thanks to falling u…
J. Bradford DeLong May 30, 2013

Inequality on the Horizon of Need

BERKELEY – By any economic measure, we are living in disappointing times. In the United States, 7.2% of the normal productive labor currentl…
Martin Feldstein May 30, 2013

America’s Misplaced Deficit Complacency

CAMBRIDGE – The United States still faces a dangerous fiscal deficit, but one might not know it from the complacency that dominates budget d…
Simon Johnson May 23, 2013

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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