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Joschka Fischer

Writing for PS since 2006
202 commentaries

Joschka Fischer, Germany’s foreign minister and vice chancellor from 1998 to 2005, was a leader of the German Green Party for almost 20 years.

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  1. Europe Transformed
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    Europe Transformed

    Jan 20, 2023 Joschka Fischer considers how Russia's invasion of Ukraine has reset the European Union's strategic priorities.

  2. COVID and the Chinese Social Contract
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    COVID and the Chinese Social Contract

    Dec 28, 2022 Joschka Fischer reflects on the broader political lessons from the country's ill-fated pandemic policy.

  3. The Birth of a New International Order
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    The Birth of a New International Order

    Nov 29, 2022 Joschka Fischer sees global great-power relations taking shape around a Sino-American dominated pentarchy.

  4. All Eyes on the Franco-German Relationship
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    All Eyes on the Franco-German Relationship

    Nov 7, 2022 Joschka Fischer explains why the cantankerous old couple will have to figure out how to work more closely together.

  5. The Cold War Is Back
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    The Cold War Is Back

    Oct 3, 2022 Joschka Fischer explains what the new Russian military and nuclear threat means for the European Union.

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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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    Beyond Industrial Policy

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Elizabeth Garlow make the case for an economic strategy that prioritizes shared prosperity over competition.

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