The Pandemic Crisis and the Policy Reaction

On Friday, the President announced Kevin Warsh as his pick for Fed Chair. Warsh has a track record of hawkishness from his previous stint as Fed governor. He has also annunciated a broad philosophy that the Fed has moved too far from its original mandate by promoting ESG objectiv ...  عرض المزيد

Amidst a torrent of unsettling international and domestic events, the week ahead could be very consequential for the Federal Reserve. The FOMC will hold its first meeting of the year on Tuesday and Wednesday. While they will likely leave interest rates on hold, any dissents on th ...  عرض المزيد

Les années 1970 constituent une rupture dans l’histoire économique et politique du monde. Sur le plan géopolitique, elles témoignent d’un mouvement qui initie la fin de la guerre froide. Parallèlement, la construction européenne s’élargit et s’approfondir à mesure que l’Europe se ...  عرض المزيد

L’épisode du Coronavirus, que certains qualifient de pire crise depuis 1929, est aussi inattendu qu’inédit. Inédit puisque pour la première fois il ne s’agit pas d’une crise due à l’éclatement au grand jour de fragilités internes du système économique mondial, mais d’une crise pr ...  عرض المزيد

James Meadway returns to discuss his predictions for the world economy in the year ahead, and why the notion of the polycrisis - while in some ways useful - fails to reckon with the fact that in a world of increasingly frequent severe weather events, climate disasters, and greate ...  عرض المزيد

The Soviet Union is one of the most historically significant economies to understand, not only because it was the home to some of the most controversial economic practices ever, not only because it was a nation that altered world politics for the latter half of the entire twentie ...  عرض المزيد