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  1. PS Commentators’ Predictions for 2023
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    PS Commentators’ Predictions for 2023

    Dec 30, 2022 PS editors asked commentators to identify national and global trends to look out for in the coming year.

  2. PS Commentators’ Best Reads in 2022
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    PS Commentators’ Best Reads in 2022

    Dec 16, 2022 PS editors ask Project Syndicate contributors to select the book that resonated with them the most over the past year.

  3. Debate: Galbraith vs. Furman on Inflation
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    Debate: Galbraith vs. Furman on Inflation

    Aug 5, 2022 PS editors feature opposing perspectives on what has become the year’s biggest economic-policy challenge.

  4. PS Commentators Explain the Ukraine War's Fallout
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    PS Commentators Explain the Ukraine War's Fallout

    Mar 4, 2022 PS editors consider what the Ukraine conflict means for politics, markets, and economies around the world.

  5. PS Commentators' Predictions for 2022
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    PS Commentators' Predictions for 2022

    Dec 17, 2021 PS editors asked commentators to suggest national and global trends to look out for in the coming year.

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    Can “Cooperative Rivalry” Work?

    Jean Pisani-Ferry worries that America and China will be unable to find common ground on preserving the global commons.
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    The Fed’s Role in the Bank Failures

    Raghuram G. Rajan & Viral V. Acharya

    There are four reasons to worry that the latest banking crisis could be systemic. For many years, periodic bouts of quantitative easing have expanded bank balance sheets and stuffed them with more uninsured deposits, making the banks increasingly vulnerable to changes in monetary policy and financial conditions.

     show how the US central bank's liquidity policies created the conditions for runs on uninsured deposits.
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    Policymakers Keep Solving the Wrong Banking Problem

    Andrés Velasco

    When a bank fails, the first response by policymakers and the public is to blame risk-loving speculators, greedy investors, or regulators asleep at the wheel. But quenching our thirst for moral adjudication is a poor basis for policy, because the truth is both simpler and more troubling.

     argues that recent market turmoil has revealed that the sector’s main vulnerability is unavoidable.
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    An Insolvency Iceberg?

    Takatoshi Ito considers the risk that other banks will experience liquidity problems as interest rates continue to rise.
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    Can Governments Still Steer the Economy?

    Robert Skidelsky explains why international finance and geopolitics make it harder to influence major performance indicators.
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    Accounting for Casino Capitalism

    Hans-Werner Sinn draws parallels between recent bank collapses and the late-nineteenth-century “founders’ crash.”
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    Who Should Be Bailed Out Next?

    Simon Zadek urges rich-country governments to aid debt-distressed poor countries as urgently as they have their failing banks.
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    The Population Boon

    Beniamino Callegari & Per Espen Stoknes correct popular myths about the threat of demographic growth to sustainable development.
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    Where Is the Global South’s Rescue Brigade?

    Vera Songwe decries the unequal responses to liquidity crises in Silicon Valley compared to the developing world.

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