The bipartisan push to ban TikTok in the US reflects both the growing distrust of China and lawmakers’ limited understanding of the tech world. While there are legitimate national-security concerns associated with the platform, a US ban could end up accelerating deglobalization.
thinks efforts to restrict American users’ access to the app are hypocritical and counterproductive.
Turkey's massive death toll from the earthquakes in February attests to a much larger problem. From an overly powerful construction lobby and endemic corruption to the steady erosion of democratic institutions, it is clear that the country now needs a thorough political and economic transformation.
think the country needs not just a new government but a broader economic and political transformation.
坎布里奇—在考虑是什么导致美国通胀率从 2020 年底到今天急剧上升时,我最初的直觉是关注激进的货币政策,遵循米尔顿·弗里德曼(Milton Friedman)的名言:“无论何时何地,通胀都是一种货币现象。”但是,虽然货币政策很重要,但这次激进的财政政策可能更为重要。
从 2020 年 3 月到 2022 年 3 月,美联储将短期名义利率维持在零水平,同时用量化宽松将其资产负债表从 4 万亿美元扩大到最终的 9 万亿美元。现在人们普遍承认,美联储在 2020 年底(甚至更早以前)开始远远落后于实际情况。由于它直到 2022 年春天才上调政策利率,因此未能让名义利率领先于通胀,从而失去控制。
认为货币政策是近期通胀的唯一来源的问题在于,美联储在 2008 年大衰退及其后同样同样激进。短期名义利率在七年期间(2009 年初至 2015 年底)固定为零。美联储资产负债表从 2008 年 8 月的 9000 亿美元增长到超过 4 万亿美元——这在当时是一个很大的数字。然而,通胀仍然温和——从 2009 年到 2019 年,平均每年约为 2%——通胀预期保持在大致相同的水平。
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