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John  B. Taylor

John B. Taylor

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John B. Taylor, a former under-secretary of the US Treasury (2001-05), is Professor of Economics at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of Global Financial Warriors and co-author (with George P. Shultz) of Choose Economic Freedom.

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  1. The Fed’s State of Exception
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    The Fed’s State of Exception

    Aug 12, 2021 John B. Taylor warns that the central bank’s deviation from monetary-policy rules can’t last indefinitely.

  2. Is the Fed Getting Burned Again?
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    Is the Fed Getting Burned Again?

    Jun 25, 2021 John B. Taylor worries that monetary policymakers have forgotten the lessons of the 1970s and 1980s.

  3. The Stimulus Didn’t Work, Again
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    The Stimulus Didn’t Work, Again

    Jun 2, 2021 John B. Taylor shows that a year of economic impact payments had no meaningful impact on household consumption.

  4. America’s Excessive Government Spending Must Stop
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    America’s Excessive Government Spending Must Stop

    Feb 23, 2021 George P. Shultz, et al. argue that US policymakers' fiscal recklessness is creating grave economic and national-security risks.

  5. The Stampede from Silicon Valley
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    The Stampede from Silicon Valley

    Dec 28, 2020 John B. Taylor explains how California policymakers can reverse the growing stampede of tech firms out of the state.

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    Africa Needs Mineral Security, Too

    Daniel M. Franks & Rüya Perincek highlight the necessity of building local value chains tailored to the continent’s economic realities.
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    Mitigating AI’s Climate Costs

    Sherif Elsayed-Ali proposes ways to realize the technology’s potential while mitigating its massive carbon footprint.
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    What Does Trump 2.0 Mean for Venezuela?

    Moisés Naím thinks the Maduro regime’s fate – and the country’s future – will be largely shaped by US policymakers.
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    Does Globalization Have a Future?

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

    While "globalization" typically conjures images of long-distance trade and migration, the concept also encompasses health, the climate, and other forms of international interdependence. The perverse irony is that an anti-globalist America may end up limiting the beneficial forms while amplifying the harmful ones.

    worries that we will end up with only harmful long-distance dependencies, rather than beneficial ones.
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    Germany Needs an Economy that Works for Young People

    Dalia Marin urges the next government to make social mobility and equal opportunity a top priority.
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    Trump’s Industrial Policy Is More Continuity Than Disruption

    Elisabeth Reynolds thinks that rebuilding America’s manufacturing base has become a central pillar of the US economic agenda.
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    Oligarchy in America

    Though Donald Trump attracted more support than ever from working-class voters in the 2024 US presidential election, he has long embraced an agenda that benefits the wealthiest Americans above all. During his second term, however, Trump seems committed not just to serving America’s ultra-rich, but to letting them wield state power themselves.

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    Give the UK Growth Agenda a Chance

    Mohamed A. El-Erian

    Given the United Kingdom’s poor investment performance over the past 30 years, any government would need time and luck to turn things around. For so many critics and commentators to trash the current government’s growth agenda before it has even been launched is counterproductive, if not dangerous.

    sees promise in the current government’s economic-policy plan despite its imperfections.
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    Islam on Trial in India

    Shashi Tharoor warns that efforts to replace centuries-old mosques with Hindu temples could trigger communal violence.

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