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Trump’s Monetary Conundrum
Nouriel Roubini says the president-elect should favor a dovish Fed if he wants his fiscal policies to work.
Nouriel Roubini says the president-elect should favor a dovish Fed if he wants his fiscal policies to work.
Jim O'Neill says sterling will likely continue its post-Brexit decline, and policymakers should take note.
Marwan Muasher says that unless Arab countries move away from rentierism, they risk another wave of uprisings.
Lee Jong-Wha advocates regional integration as the surest route to peace and prosperity in an unstable world.
Shlomo Ben-Ami considers the challenges facing a US president-elect who is uniquely unqualified to address them.
Sławomir Sierakowski worries that the last line of defense against Russian influence in the region is about to disappear.
Christopher Smart cautions the US against abusing its outsize influence in the global financial system.
Barry Eichengreen says that trade is slowing because economies are slowing, not the other way around.
Yasser Al-Saleh explains how a city-state with limited resources became a global economic and cultural hub.
Robert J. Shiller does not see how the US president-elect can give his working-class voters what they most want.
Ana Palacio applies the late Václav Havel's values and perspective to the EU's current predicament.
Heather Hurlburt shows that race and education levels were more decisive factors than gender in the 2016 election.
Adebimpe Adebiyi urges governments in West Africa to take decisive action to tackle undernutrition and obesity.
Carlos F. Amábile-Cuevas advocates a global ratings system for drug companies as a way to curb antimicrobial resistance.
Mohammod Jobayer Chisti highlights the potential of poor-country researchers to develop low-cost therapies.
Sami Mahroum laments the hegemony of empiricism at the expense of all other research approaches today.
Inga Kroener calls for privacy-impact assessments to ensure that sensitive personal data are protected.
Chee Yoke Ling & Edward Hammond warn of the dangers of Internet-facilitated exchanges of biodiversity.
Gordon Brown emphasizes the opportunities for social enterprise to reinvent classrooms and curricula regionwide.
Gordon Brown calls for more entrepreneurship to bring schools and pedagogy into the twenty-first century.
Adair Turner rebuts the conventional belief that more education will boost productivity and reduce inequality.
Martha Rojas-Urrego & Patricia Espinosa say countries must conserve and expand natural ecosystems as part of their carbon-reduction efforts.
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber , ET AL explain the role that finance must play in moving the world toward a global clean-energy economy.
Lili Fuhr warns against politically expedient but potentially damaging quick fixes to global warming.
Nina L. Khrushcheva traces the course of US voters' declining capacity to decipher lived reality from the virtual kind.
Peter Singer argues that repealing laws criminalizing the industry would reduce harm and boost public welfare.
Ian Buruma discerns in populism an amalgam of mass economic anxiety and the social rage of elite arrivistes.