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February 1, 2024

United States
Transatlantic Divergence of Economic Outlooks – Implications for Central Bank Policies

Germans and Americans are pessimistic about their economies. While the European Central Bank and Federal Reserve remain committed to fighting inflation, the ECB faces a much tougher task.

Jay Powell

October 18, 2005

United States
Why not run a bigger trade deficit? (The August TIC data)

After all, the market seems willing to finance one! That is the message of the TIC data.   Monthly inflows of $90 billion or so are large enough to sustain a current account deficit of $1080 billion,…

February 17, 2005

Can Germany learn something from France?

The good capitalists at Morgan Stanley seem to think so.Not all of old Europe has anemic domestic demand.French (and Spanish) domestic demand is doing just fine ... And new Europe (sort of) Italy, ru…

December 28, 2018

Global
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2018

Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.

Kofi Annan addresses a news conference UN headquarters in New York, 1997. REUTERS/Jeff Christensen.

December 19, 2004

The Teutonic Monetary Policy Tradition

My recent travels took me to old Europe -- and reminded me that the rest of the world is, in many ways, still unprepared for changes set to hit the world economy -- a world economy where the US trade…