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Willem H. Buiter

Willem H. Buiter

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Willem H. Buiter, a former chief economist at Citibank and former member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England, is an independent economic adviser.

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  1. Why Have Inflation Forecasts Been So Wrong?
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    Why Have Inflation Forecasts Been So Wrong?

    Apr 1, 2024 Willem H. Buiter & Ebrahim Rahbari consider the factors that have most confounded macroeconomic models over the past three years.

  2. Central Banks Need to Be Honest About Their Losses
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    Central Banks Need to Be Honest About Their Losses

    Mar 5, 2024 Willem H. Buiter criticizes the European Central Bank and US Federal Reserve's accounting tricks.

  3. The ECB Should Change Three Bad Habits
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    The ECB Should Change Three Bad Habits

    Jan 17, 2024 Willem H. Buiter & Ebrahim Rahbari identify longstanding practices that have consistently left policymakers behind the curve.

  4. A Farewell to Cash
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    A Farewell to Cash

    Dec 11, 2023 Willem H. Buiter rebuts the three main arguments against introducing an interest-bearing central bank digital currency.

  5. Is the Fed’s Negative Capital a Problem?
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    Is the Fed’s Negative Capital a Problem?

    Sep 28, 2023 Willem H. Buiter thinks not, but recommends a reform designed to ensure that it does not become one in the future.

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    Old and New Lessons from the Ukraine War

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr. revisits eight takeaways and predictions from the first four months after Russia's invasion.
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    What the EU Has Done for Us

    Nadia Calviño urges voters in this week’s elections not to take their greatest shared institution for granted.
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    American Business Will Regret Writing Off Democracy

    Katharina Pistor explains why endorsing Donald Trump is a bad bet for today’s titans of the US economy.
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    The High Cost of GPT-4o

    Angela Huyue Zhang & S. Alex Yang warn that OpenAI's new multimodal AI tool is designed to gobble up user data, much of which is copyrighted.
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    The End of the ANC’s Single-Party Rule

    Adekeye Adebajo reflects on the causes and consequences of South Africa’s stunning election result.
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    During This Super Election Year, More Women Are Needed at the Top

    Ellen Johnson Sirleaf & Binaifer Nowrojee

    With gender equality lagging behind the other Sustainable Development Goals, increasing the number of women elected to political leadership roles is crucial. But to make meaningful, lasting progress, governments and philanthropies must invest in empowering more women to seek these positions.

     call attention to a disturbing reversal of progress toward gender equality in politics and government.
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    Rough Justice for Trump

    Eric Posner thinks the Manhattan jury’s guilty verdict is the best that can be hoped for, under the circumstances.
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    Still Haunted by the Washington Consensus

    Antara Haldar thinks the old one-size-fits-all model is still causing problems, despite having been discredited.
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    The Right Way to Regulate AI

    Joshua Gans argues that the key is to identify and reverse the technology’s unwelcome consequences soon after they appear.

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