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Banking Crisis Revisited?

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  1. rajan83_Kevin DietschGetty Images_federalreserve Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
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    Not Buying Central Banks’ Favorite Excuse

    Raghuram G. Rajan shows why monetary policymakers must bear some of the blame for the latest banking-sector turmoil.
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    Who’s Afraid of Central Bank Digital Currencies?

    Yanis Varoufakis shows how CBDCs would stop the financial industry from holding societies hostage.
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    Dollar Relief for the Global South

    Hippolyte Fofack foresees a weaker greenback easing financial conditions in low-income countries.
  5. stiglitz317_OLIVIER DOULIERYAFP via Getty Images_jeromepowell Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images
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    No Confidence in the Fed

    Joseph E. Stiglitz says supervisory failures have exacerbated the financial turmoil triggered by rapid interest-rate hikes.
  6. eichengreen177_Justin SullivanGetty Images_siliconvalleybank Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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    A Bank Murder Mystery

    Barry Eichengreen examines the four main suspects that have emerged in explanations of the recent US financial turmoil.
  7. roubini175_Michael M. SantiagoGetty Images_debt crisis Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
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    The Coming Doom Loop

    Nouriel Roubini warns that liquidity support will not be enough to prevent a deeper financial crisis and economic downturn.
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    Crises of Uncertainty

    Harold James fears the consequences of policymakers’ continual revision of economic and financial governance rules.
  9. rajan82_BRENDAN SMIALOWSKIPOOLAFP via Getty Images_jeromepowell Brendan Smialowski/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
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    The Fed’s Role in the Bank Failures

    Raghuram G. Rajan & Viral V. Acharya show how the US central bank's liquidity policies created the conditions for runs on uninsured deposits.
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    Trump at the Gates

    Joschka Fischer urges Europeans to recognize that they are now on their own in an increasingly dangerous world.
  2. stiglitz347_Kevin DietschGettyImages_bye_biden Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
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    The End of Progress?

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Though the United States has long led the world in advancing basic science and technology, it is hard to see how this can continue under President Donald Trump and the country’s ascendant oligarchy. America’s rejection of Enlightenment values will have dire consequences.

     predicts that Donald Trump’s second administration will be defined by its rejection of Enlightenment values.
  3. varoufakis123_China PhotosGetty Images_chinayuandollar China Photos/Getty Images
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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Will the China hawks in Donald Trump’s administration railroad him into a confrontation that transcends tariffs and embraces financial sanctions of the type the US and the European Union imposed on Russia? If they do, China's leaders will have to decide whether to decouple from the dollar-based international monetary system.

     thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.
  4. lamy10_Badru KatumbaGettyImages_jackfruit_farmer Badru Katumba/Getty Images
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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
  6. benami221_Justin SullivanGetty Images_trump Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
  7. hubbard4_Chen MengtongChina News ServiceVCG via Getty Images_scottbessent Chen Mengtong/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
  8. oneill129_Saul LoebGettyImages_us_treasury Saul Loeb/Getty Images
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
  9. ahzhang19_Jaap ArriensNurPhoto via Getty Images_tiktok Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.

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