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Jürgen Stark

Jürgen Stark

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Jürgen Stark, a former member of the ECB Executive Board and Governing Council, is a former deputy governor of the Deutsche Bundesbank and honorary professor at the University of Tübingen.

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  1. Central Banks’ Day of Reckoning Is Here
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    Central Banks’ Day of Reckoning Is Here

    May 12, 2023 Jürgen Stark urges monetary policymakers to acknowledge and learn from their recent errors in order to regain public trust.

  2. The ECB's Existential Dilemma
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    The ECB's Existential Dilemma

    Jan 19, 2022 Jürgen Stark, et al. warn that the European Central Bank’s politicization will catch up to it in the new inflationary environment.

  3. The Eurozone’s Solidarity Fallacy
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    The Eurozone’s Solidarity Fallacy

    Dec 17, 2018 Jürgen Stark worries that introducing more joint-liability instruments will undermine the monetary union's stability.

  4. The Irresponsible ECB
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    The Irresponsible ECB

    Feb 19, 2018 Jürgen Stark argues that an exit from expansionary monetary policy is long overdue.

  5. The ECB’s Leap into the Unknown
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    The ECB’s Leap into the Unknown

    Oct 1, 2014 Jürgen Stark has sharp words for the European Central Bank's decision to double down on monetary stimulus.

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    What Fiscally Sound Industrial Policy Can Do

    Keun Lee highlights three tools that can support domestic-market growth and development without breaking the bank.
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    Why Voters Are Unhappy About the Biden Economy

    Michael J. Boskin explains why Americans do not share the White House’s rosy assessment of its economic track record.
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    Our Freedoms Depend on Press Freedom

    Jodie Ginsberg warns that the increased targeting of journalists and the media is a key indicator of democratic erosion.
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    Climate Change Is a Worse Health Threat Than We Think

    Manica Balasegaram warns that the world is underestimating the extent to which global warming will fuel antimicrobial resistance.
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    Musk Has Made Tesla a Meme Stock

    J. Bradford DeLong

    Although Tesla appears to be wildly overvalued compared to rival automakers, its shareholders are betting that they can sell their holdings to a greater fool in the near future, and Elon Musk is eagerly indulging their speculative exuberance. None of it bodes well for company’s workers, suppliers, and other customers.

    worries that the first mover in electric vehicles is increasingly running on bucket-shop hype.
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    The US Treasury’s Bond Blunder Will Cost Gen Z Dearly

    Todd G. Buchholz & James Carter thinks the US should have locked in favorable borrowing rates when it had the chance.
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    What’s Driving the Global Gold Rush?

    Harold James considers the political factors pushing the price of the “barbarous relic” to all-time highs.
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    Global Elections in the Shadow of Neoliberalism

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    While scandals, culture wars, and threats to democracy dominate the headlines, the biggest issues in this super election year ultimately concern economic policies. After all, the rise of anti-democratic populist authoritarianism is itself the legacy of a misbegotten economic ideology.

    considers what 40 years of anti-government, low-tax, deregulatory advocacy have wrought around the world.
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    Averting Climate Catastrophe Requires Economic Growth

    Alessio Terzi & Gernot Wagner show why shrinking the global economy, as envisaged by advocates of degrowth, is a bad way to cut emissions.

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