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Eric Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, is the author of How Antitrust Failed Workers.

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  1. Facebook's Foreign Disasters
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    Facebook's Foreign Disasters

    Nov 5, 2021 Eric Posner thinks US policymakers should consider reforms to rein in the company in countries that can't do it themselves.

  2. The Justices Doth Protest Too Much
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    The Justices Doth Protest Too Much

    Oct 7, 2021 Eric Posner thinks US Supreme Court justices should avoid mounting populist defenses against populist attacks.

  3. America's Return to Realism
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    America's Return to Realism

    Sep 3, 2021 Eric Posner says that President Joe Biden has made it plain that human rights will no longer drive US foreign policy.

  4. COVID and the Conservative Economic Crack-up
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    COVID and the Conservative Economic Crack-up

    Aug 24, 2021 Eric Posner marvels at the glaring incoherence of contemporary market-fundamentalist arguments.

  5. The Antitrust War’s Opening Salvo
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    The Antitrust War’s Opening Salvo

    Jul 21, 2021 Eric Posner explains the implications of US President Joe Biden’s executive order promoting competition in the economy.

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    Can “Cooperative Rivalry” Work?

    Jean Pisani-Ferry worries that America and China will be unable to find common ground on preserving the global commons.
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    The Fed’s Role in the Bank Failures

    Raghuram G. Rajan & Viral V. Acharya

    There are four reasons to worry that the latest banking crisis could be systemic. For many years, periodic bouts of quantitative easing have expanded bank balance sheets and stuffed them with more uninsured deposits, making the banks increasingly vulnerable to changes in monetary policy and financial conditions.

     show how the US central bank's liquidity policies created the conditions for runs on uninsured deposits.
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    Policymakers Keep Solving the Wrong Banking Problem

    Andrés Velasco

    When a bank fails, the first response by policymakers and the public is to blame risk-loving speculators, greedy investors, or regulators asleep at the wheel. But quenching our thirst for moral adjudication is a poor basis for policy, because the truth is both simpler and more troubling.

     argues that recent market turmoil has revealed that the sector’s main vulnerability is unavoidable.
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    An Insolvency Iceberg?

    Takatoshi Ito considers the risk that other banks will experience liquidity problems as interest rates continue to rise.
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    Can Governments Still Steer the Economy?

    Robert Skidelsky explains why international finance and geopolitics make it harder to influence major performance indicators.
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    Accounting for Casino Capitalism

    Hans-Werner Sinn draws parallels between recent bank collapses and the late-nineteenth-century “founders’ crash.”
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    Who Should Be Bailed Out Next?

    Simon Zadek urges rich-country governments to aid debt-distressed poor countries as urgently as they have their failing banks.
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    The Population Boon

    Beniamino Callegari & Per Espen Stoknes correct popular myths about the threat of demographic growth to sustainable development.
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    Where Is the Global South’s Rescue Brigade?

    Vera Songwe decries the unequal responses to liquidity crises in Silicon Valley compared to the developing world.

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