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Jeffrey Frankel

Jeffrey Frankel

Writing for PS since 2000
198 commentaries
2 videos & podcasts

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Jeffrey Frankel, Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University, previously served as a member of President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers. He is a research associate at the US National Bureau of Economic Research.

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  1. Fifty Years of Floating Currencies
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    Fifty Years of Floating Currencies

    Mar 20, 2023 Jeffrey Frankel explains why the shift toward exchange-rate flexibility after 1973 was not a policy failure, as many believed.

  2. The Crusade to Ban ESG Makes No Sense
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    The Crusade to Ban ESG Makes No Sense

    Feb 24, 2023 Jeffrey Frankel explains why US Republicans' attack on “woke capital” is misguided, dangerous, and ideologically incoherent.

  3. Why This Debt-Ceiling Fight Is Different
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    Why This Debt-Ceiling Fight Is Different

    Jan 19, 2023 Jeffrey Frankel warns that the current partisan standoff in Washington may not end with a last-minute compromise.

  4. Is a Global Recession Really Around the Corner?
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    Is a Global Recession Really Around the Corner?

    Dec 22, 2022 Jeffrey Frankel explains why the looming economic downturn is not inevitable and may not be as bad as many economists expect.

  5. Let the WTO Referee Carbon Border Taxes
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    Let the WTO Referee Carbon Border Taxes

    Nov 29, 2022 Jeffrey Frankel shows how a revived World Trade Organization can play a central role in combating climate change.

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    Price Stability vs. Financial Stability?

    Willem H. Buiter

    If the US Federal Reserve raises its policy interest rate by as much as is necessary to rein in inflation, it will most likely further depress the market value of the long-duration securities parked on many banks' balance sheets. So be it.

    thinks central banks can achieve both, despite the occurrence of a liquidity crisis amid high inflation.
  2. frankel145_ Richard Baker  In Pictures via Getty Images_exchangerates Richard Baker/In Pictures via Getty Images

    Fifty Years of Floating Currencies

    Jeffrey Frankel explains why the shift toward exchange-rate flexibility after 1973 was not a policy failure, as many believed.
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    What Do America’s Spies Really Think About China?

    Kent Harrington thinks the intelligence community’s annual threat assessment should have delved deeper on the issue.
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    Waking Up to the World’s Water Crisis

    Quentin Grafton, et al. see three overarching priorities for the first global water conference in almost a half-century.
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    Peace Requires Betrayal

    Shlomo Ben-Ami shows why Ukraine and Russia will most likely have to pursue an unpopular endgame to stop the bloodshed.
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    Lessons from the SVB Collapse

    Lucrezia Reichlin

    Although Silicon Valley Bank was not deemed to be systemically important, its insolvency forced the US Federal Reserve to head off systemic contagion and exposed the inadequacy of the FDIC’s partial deposit insurance regime. The financial-stability framework adopted after the 2008 crisis obviously needs another overhaul.

    considers what the bank’s failure should mean for the current financial-stability framework.
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    It’s the Banking Regulations, Stupid

    Antonio Foglia traces the Silicon Valley Bank failure back to fundamental flaws in the prevailing governance framework.
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    Confronting the Global Water Crisis

    Mariana Mazzucato, et al. offer a seven-point blueprint for preserving one of the planet’s most important natural systems.
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    Revisiting America’s War of Choice in Iraq

    Richard Haass considers the enduring lessons from a foreign intervention that was both ill-conceived and poorly executed.

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