
Economics & Finance
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Can America Maintain External Sustainability?
Can America Maintain External Sustainability?
Yu Yongding explains why demand for foreign capital inflows to offset the country’s savings shortfall may go unmet. -
Trump’s Self-Fulfilling Crisis
Trump’s Self-Fulfilling Crisis
Stephen S. Roach shows how the US president’s policies could create the very problems he falsely claims to be confronting. -
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America’s Oligarchs Are Trump’s Achilles’ Heel
America’s Oligarchs Are Trump’s Achilles’ Heel
Gabriel Zucman proposes that countries targeted by US tariffs retaliate with taxes on Elon Musk and his peers. -
A New Gulf Growth Model
A New Gulf Growth Model
Faris Al-Sulayman & Steffen Hertog explain why the region’s governments are well positioned to capitalize on recent geo-economic trends. -
Small States Mean Big Returns
Small States Mean Big Returns
Adnan Hassan sees lucrative investment opportunities in countries capable of adapting efficiently to rapid economic change. -
Make Europe Great Again
Make Europe Great Again
Harold James urges the next German government to help revive the postwar European social market economy. -
What Should Be on the Global Financial Agenda?
What Should Be on the Global Financial Agenda?
José Antonio Ocampo offers a roadmap for this year's global conferences on “financing for development.” -
Austerity Is Back – and More Dangerous Than Ever
Austerity Is Back – and More Dangerous Than Ever
Mark Blyth explains how an old orthodoxy is being put to more openly political and redistributive uses.