
An Infrastructure Inoculation for America’s Recovery
Jan 13, 2021 thinks spending in this area would provide better stimulus than another cash disbursement to every household.
Barry Eichengreen is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former senior policy adviser at the International Monetary Fund. His latest book is The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era.
Jan 13, 2021 thinks spending in this area would provide better stimulus than another cash disbursement to every household.
Dec 11, 2020 explains why keeping them muzzled will become more challenging as more payments fall due in 2021.
Nov 9, 2020 reflects on a US president who refused to accept voters' verdict and despised his successor.
Oct 13, 2020 urges sovereignty advocates to begin planning now for a new currency and an independent central bank.
Sep 9, 2020 explains why the health crisis and its economic fallout are likely to worsen in the United States in October.
Tackling the COVID-19 pandemic and engineering an economic recovery are only two of the challenges facing new US President Joe Biden. Amid deep social divisions and the continued threat of right-wing extremist violence, Biden must also try to re-establish democratic political norms and restore trust in American leadership at home and abroad.