List of Economics articles
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen delivers a keynote address at the American Bankers Association's (ABA) 2023 Washington Summit on March 21, 2023. Is Decoupling Destabilizing the Global Economy?
Major speeches from Janet Yellen and Jake Sullivan double down on Biden’s strategy of linking U.S. national security with economic policy.
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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris walks with Tanzanian Vice President Philip Mpango in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on March 31. Washington Should Reconsider Its Economic Gameplan in Africa
China, India, and the Gulf countries have pursued a combination of trade and aid the United States can learn from.
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A girl stands atop a destroyed Russian tank. Russia’s Boom Business Goes Bust
Moscow’s arms exports have fallen to levels not seen since the Soviet Union’s collapse.
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Harbor security stand guard during an inauguration ceremony of new equipment and infrastructure at Shahid Beheshti Port in the southeastern Iranian city of Chabahar. Russia and Iran Have High Hopes for Each Other
But can they cooperate on trade while competing on investment?
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A Congolese boy looks up toward a sign advertising a commercial center selling Chinese products in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Nov. 3, 2006. Are China and Russia Bad for Africa? That’s the Wrong Question.
Westerners should ask instead what kind of partnerships their own countries offer to the continent.
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French President Emmanuel Macron attends a meeting with the leaders of various French unions and employers’ associations after he signed into law a pension reform that raises the retirement age from 62 to 64, at the Élysée Palace in Paris on April 18. How Macron Can Save His Presidency
The French president is bound to provoke outrage if he continues to govern like a king.
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A photo taken on October 21, 2020 shows the logos of Google, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Snapchat, and Instragram on a computer screen in Lille, France. Social Media Is Now a Financial WMD
The finance sector is adjusting to a world where a single tweet can trigger a catastrophic bank run.
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The book covers for Jenna Smialek's Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis and Nick Timiraos' Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic—and Prevented Economic Disaster. How the Fed Became Everything (and Everything Became the Fed)
Two books peel back the curtain on the central bank—but miss why it misread the economy in the wake of the pandemic.
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A Chinese flag flies outside a compound in Beijing to illustrate a story about how tensions between the U.S. and China threaten the global economy. Adam Tooze: When National Security Trumps All
How the reordering of U.S. state concerns could threaten the world economy as we know it.
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U.S. President Joe Biden signs the Inflation Reduction Act as Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer and House Majority Whip James Clyburn look on, in the White House in Washington on Aug. 16, 2022. Biden Is Rewriting the Rules on Trade—and Americans Should Be Worried
The administration is doing a sneaky end run around the Inflation Reduction Act.
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U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan speaks and gestures during the daily press briefing at the White House. Washington Doesn’t Want You to Call It Decoupling
The United States hopes to redefine its economic relationship with China to prevail in the biggest strategic showdown of the century.
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Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar welcomes U.S. President Joe Biden at the Dublin airport on April 12. Ireland Is Trapped in Its American Dream
Dublin faces an economic train wreck due to its overreliance on a few U.S. companies.
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The SVB Private logo is displayed outside of a Silicon Valley Bank branch in Santa Monica, California. China’s Tech Funders Worry They Could Be the Next Silicon Valley Bank
Financial innovation has been a powerful force, but the specter of inflation looms.
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Lula and Xi walk side by side in front of a military honor guard. Why Lula’s Visit to Beijing Matters More Than Macron’s
The world’s economic dynamism is shifting to the global south.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva shake hands in Beijing. A BRICS Currency Could Shake the Dollar’s Dominance
De-dollarization’s moment might finally be here.
