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Looking for Inflation

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Next week the US Fed’s Open Market Committee will meet with inflation still below its target. And Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney is suggesting that UK rates could rise soon. The US, UK and the global economy have been expanding modestly for at least a year. Yet inflation is still flatlining.

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  1. The Mystery of the Missing Inflation
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    The Mystery of the Missing Inflation

    Sep 13, 2017 Nouriel Roubini describes advanced-country central banks’ dilemmas as GDP growth rises but the price level doesn’t.

  2. The Normalization Delusion
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    The Normalization Delusion

    Sep 4, 2017 Adair Turner explains why the global economy remains far from returning to the pre-2008 status quo.

  3. Recovery is Not Resolution
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    Recovery is Not Resolution

    Aug 1, 2017 Carmen M. Reinhart warns that the recent growth pickup in major advanced economies is obscuring serious weaknesses.

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    Trump’s Looming Deficit Disaster

    Desmond Lachman explains why the US president’s trade tariffs and planned tax cuts are at odds with basic economic realities.
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    Governing AI for the Public Interest

    Mariana Mazzucato & Tommaso Valletti explain why the UK government’s recently released AI “action plan” misses the mark.
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    Putting the Trump-Modi Bromance to the Test

    Brahma Chellaney hopes that the US and Indian leaders take concrete steps to reset and deepen the bilateral relationship.
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    The Dark Side of EU Deregulation

    Alberto Alemanno warns that the bloc’s efforts to reduce bureaucratic red tape will do more harm than good.
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    Daniel Gros on DeepSeek, Germany's malaise, EU competitiveness, and more

    Daniel Gros hopes that a Chinese startup's apparent AI breakthrough will provide a much-needed boost to European competitiveness, advises the EU on how to deal with Donald Trump, urges Europe to improve conditions for bottom-up innovation, and more.
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    Trump Will Not Kill the Global Energy Transition

    Ian Bremmer

    Despite Donald Trump's promise to boost fossil-fuel production, the economic and technological forces driving the clean-energy revolution cannot be stopped. The global transition will power forward, even if America has abandoned climate leadership, and even if the road ahead includes a few more bumps.

    assuages fears that the global energy transition will be thrown into reverse by the new US administration.
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    A Reformed WHO Should Make Its Case to America

    Gordon Brown wants to reassure the Trump administration that a revamped organization could serve US and global interests.
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    The Age of Multipolarization

    Tobias Bunde & Sophie Eisentraut think a better future depends on whether a world with more poles can find ways to mitigate dangerous divisions.
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    Will US Export Restrictions Work?

    Barry Eichengreen

    Perhaps US efforts to cut off China’s access to advanced semiconductors will be more successful than analogous restrictions on tech exports to France in the 1960s. But we now have at least one data point – DeepSeek – that suggests otherwise.

    questions the effectiveness of efforts to limit China’s access to advanced semiconductors.

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