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Todd G. Buchholz

Todd G. Buchholz

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Todd G. Buchholz, a former White House director of economic policy under President George H.W. Bush and managing director of the Tiger hedge fund, is the recipient of the Harvard Department of Economics’ Allyn Young Teaching Prize. He is the author of New Ideas from Dead Economists (Plume, 2021), The Price of Prosperity (Harper, 2016), and co-author of the musical Glory Ride.

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  1. Countries That March Together Should Trade Together
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    Countries That March Together Should Trade Together

    Sep 10, 2024 Todd G. Buchholz urges the next US president to distinguish good from bad actors, rather than raise tariffs haphazardly.

  2. Biden’s Antitrust Crusade Comes for Handbags
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    Biden’s Antitrust Crusade Comes for Handbags

    Aug 12, 2024 Todd G. Buchholz laments the US Federal Trade Commission’s efforts to block sensible mergers based on unsound legal theories.

  3. Todd G. Buchholz on US debt, Chinese trade practices, industrial policy, and more
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    Todd G. Buchholz on US debt, Chinese trade practices, industrial policy, and more

    Jun 25, 2024 Todd G. Buchholz points out that not all the reasons for the US economy’s strong performance are positive, highlights the limits of antitrust enforcement, suggests that China is undermining both its own future growth and the world trading apparatus, and more.

  4. Let the Giggers Fight Inflation
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    Let the Giggers Fight Inflation

    Jun 24, 2024 Todd G. Buchholz criticizes efforts by US regulators to throttle the proliferation of independent contractors.

  5. The US Treasury’s Bond Blunder Will Cost Gen Z Dearly
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    The US Treasury’s Bond Blunder Will Cost Gen Z Dearly

    May 1, 2024 Todd G. Buchholz & James Carter thinks the US should have locked in favorable borrowing rates when it had the chance.

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    Financing Food Security Will Yield High Returns

    Gelsomina Vigliotti & Maurizio Martina explain why massive investment in more sustainable agrifood systems is a moral and strategic imperative.
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    Kamala Harris’s Economic Priorities

    Nouriel Roubini considers what Kamala Harris’s economic agenda would entail, and how it compares to Donald Trump’s.
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    Can Claudia Sheinbaum Escape AMLO’s Shadow?

    Guillermo Ortiz asks whether Mexico’s new president will govern as a pragmatist or embrace her predecessor’s populism.
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    America’s Broken Constitution

    Nicholas Reed Langen sees the country’s politicized Supreme Court as the biggest obstacle to addressing many other problems.
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    The Cuban Contingent Protecting Maduro

    Jorge G. Castañeda explains why the sham Venezuelan presidential election has not triggered a repeat of the 1958 military coup.
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    Is Antitrust Enforcement Broken?

    Though antitrust enforcement has been gaining momentum on both sides of the Atlantic, a handful of private actors still wield extraordinary market power – and thus power over ordinary people’s lives. With some calling for more radical action, and others warning that reining in firms’ market power would be unhelpful and even harmful, we asked PS commentators what needs to be done.

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    Europe and the Polycrisis

    Thomas Buberl argues that safeguarding the EU’s future demands a fundamental institutional transformation by 2045.
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    The Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Test

    Dani Rodrik explains how to steer international economic-policy debates toward what really matters.
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    Who Needs a New Economic Paradigm?

    Andrés Velasco asks what’s behind the ambition, on both the left and right, to promote a transformative vision of the field.

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