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Clemens Fuest

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Clemens Fuest, President of the Ifo Institute, is Professor of Economics at the University of Munich.

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  1. Climate Adaptation Is as Imperative as Mitigation
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    Climate Adaptation Is as Imperative as Mitigation

    Aug 22, 2024 Clemens Fuest & Maria Waldinger urge governments and businesses to help communities adjust to the inevitable consequences of global warming.

  2. Europe Must Avoid a Subsidy Race
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    Europe Must Avoid a Subsidy Race

    Oct 12, 2022 Clemens Fuest worries that national governments will move ahead with beggar-thy-neighbor energy policies.

  3. How to Tax Energy Companies’ Windfall Profits
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    How to Tax Energy Companies’ Windfall Profits

    Oct 7, 2022 Clemens Fuest & Axel Ockenfels consider the underappreciated difficulties of implementing new levies without creating unwanted side effects.

  4. The ECB’s Toxic Bond-Purchase Program
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    The ECB’s Toxic Bond-Purchase Program

    Jul 27, 2022 Lars P. Feld, et al. warn that the European Central Bank’s new anti-fragmentation instrument risks destabilizing the eurozone.

  5. Don’t Raise the Eurozone’s Public-Debt Limit
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    Don’t Raise the Eurozone’s Public-Debt Limit

    Jun 15, 2022 Clemens Fuest urges policymakers to focus on increasing the quality, not the quantity, of public spending.

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    Trump’s Best Hope for Peace Is to Support Ukraine

    Tatyana Deryugina, et al. warn that trying to appease Putin could cast the American president-elect as a modern-day Neville Chamberlain.
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    Should Ukraine Have Nuclear Weapons?

    Slavoj Žižek dismisses the idea that firing Western missiles at Russian targets represents a dangerous escalation.
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    The End of the Liberal West

    Joschka Fischer considers what Donald Trump’s return to the White House will mean for Europe and the post-war world order.
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    Trump’s Inflationary Triple Threat

    Maurice Obstfeld

    Contrary to the claims of techno-libertarians like Elon Musk, independent central banks have a decades-long record of successfully controlling inflation. Yet, as the Federal Reserve’s credibility and oversight capabilities become more critical than ever, US President-elect Donald Trump’s policies threaten to undermine them.

     warns that the incoming administration’s agenda would weaken the Fed and destabilize the financial system.
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    What Will Trump Do About China?

    US President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to take a confrontational approach to China, with tariffs as his weapon of choice. But unless his administration adopts a measured approach, his plans may end up harming American businesses and consumers, undermining US democracy, or even leading to military confrontation.

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    The Big Picture

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    Human Progress in the Trump Era

    Tawakkol Karman, et al. propose ways to foster a culture of cooperation at a time of rising conflict and democratic erosion.
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    Elon Musk’s $2 Trillion Fiscal Fantasy

    Jeffrey Frankel dives into the incoming US administration’s absurd claim that fresh tax cuts will not increase the deficit.
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    The Deal Trump Should Offer China

    Todd G. Buchholz proposes that the incoming US administration push for a debt write-off and market access instead of tariffs.

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