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  1. calvino4_SeanGallupGettyImages_cop29 Sean Gallup/Getty Images

    Climate Action Must Rise Above Politics

    Nadia Calviño foresees multilateral development banks continuing to play a critical role in financing the green transition.
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    The Battle Over Russia’s Central Bank Heats Up

    Anders Åslund highlights rising political tension over the country’s rapidly deteriorating economic conditions.
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    Middle Powers Will Make a Multipolar World

    Dani Rodrik expects relatively large economies to emerge as a countervailing force vis-à-vis America and China.
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    The EU Must Break Up Big Tech

    Cori Crider explains how reining in digital giants’ outsize power would boost competition and help combat climate change.
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    How Europe Could Benefit from Trump’s Second Term

    Daniel Gros urges policymakers to focus on defusing trade tensions with the bloc’s largest export partner.
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    China Can Beat Back Deflation

    Michael Spence predicts that, with the right policies, the economy’s growth momentum can be restored within 2-3 years.
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    Japan Needs Tighter Monetary Policy

    Koichi Hamada hopes that Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba recognizes the risks raised by an undervalued yen in today's economy.
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    Stablecoins Can Defend the Dollar’s Global Status

    Paul Ryan prefers a payments system built by private industry in the US to one built by the People’s Bank of China.
  1. calvino4_SeanGallupGettyImages_cop29 Sean Gallup/Getty Images

    Climate Action Must Rise Above Politics

    Nadia Calviño foresees multilateral development banks continuing to play a critical role in financing the green transition.
  2. sierakowski112_ Paul RyanMichael Ochs ArchivesGetty Images_ukraine Paul Ryan/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

    Could Trump Be Good for Europe?

    Sławomir Sierakowski thinks the coming change in US leadership could be the shock that the European Union needs.
  3. aslund79_OlgaMaltsevaGettyImages_nabiullina Olga Maltseva/Getty Images

    The Battle Over Russia’s Central Bank Heats Up

    Anders Åslund highlights rising political tension over the country’s rapidly deteriorating economic conditions.
  4. babayev1_ALEXANDER NEMENOVAFP via Getty Images_cop29 Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images

    There Is No Alternative to Multilateral Climate Action

    Mukhtar Babayev urges world leaders at COP29 to reaffirm their commitment to achieving the targets set by the Paris agreement.
  5. Alexander Nemenov/Getty Images

    Middle Powers Will Make a Multipolar World

    Dani Rodrik expects relatively large economies to emerge as a countervailing force vis-à-vis America and China.
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    Misinformation Decided the US Election

    J. Bradford DeLong asks why Donald Trump’s supporters overwhelmingly held a distorted view of the country’s situation.
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    What Will Trump’s Victory Mean for the Climate?

    Gernot Wagner notes that the president-elect’s proposed policies will mainly harm America, not the global energy transition.
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    The Causes and Consequences of Trump’s Comeback

    Shlomo Ben-Ami considers the reasons for – and implications of – US Democrats’ resounding election failure.
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    The Laugh Is on the Democrats

    Ian Buruma sees Donald Trump’s victory as a rebellion of the culturally dispossessed who relish his insult comedy.

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