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May 23, 2016

Europe
The Case for More Public Investment in Germany is Strong

Last week, Greg Ip of the Wall Street Journal argued that Germany should focus on raising private wages rather than increasing public investment as part of a broader critique of Germany’s inclusion o…

June 16, 2010

United States
More Money than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite

Sebastian Mallaby, director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of More Money than God, discusses his book and the role of he…

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November 16, 2006

United States
Wrong about 2006. Right about 2007? Or 2008?

I don’t think that Nouriel Roubini and I ever argued Bretton Woods 2 – an international monetary system based on central bank financing of the US deficit -- would absolutely collapse by the end of 20…

October 27, 2015

Politics and Government
Legitimizing Xenophobia: How South Africa Breeds Distrust of Foreigners

This is a guest post by Cheryl Strauss Einhorn, a journalist and adjunct professor at the Columbia Business School. Twenty-five years ago South Africans sought global assistance to create an inclusi…

Xenophobia

May 27, 2009

Emerging Markets
Too much, or too little

Free exchange is worried that the Obama Administration wants to change too much: WHEN asked my assessment of the government’s handling of the financial crisis, I usually say it is too soon to tell. …