Economic Policy
Big picture coverage of macroeconomics, political economy, and governments' roles in world commerce.
- The Start-Ups We Don’t Need Scott Shane 01/07/2009
- Are we encouraging the creation of too many low-productivity businesses?
- A Gangster Has Many Faces Anthony Dick 12/23/2008
- UC-Berkeley economist Edward Miguel explores how corruption and violence keep certain countries mired in poverty.
- Beware of Investment Protectionism Claude Barfield 12/17/2008
- Barack Obama should announce to the world that the United States welcomes and encourages foreign investment.
- What Will the Fed Do Now? Desmond Lachman 12/11/2008
- In all likelihood, the Federal Open Market Committee will soon move toward quantitative monetary policy easing.
- How to Help Detroit Philip I. Levy 12/11/2008
- Why declaring bankruptcy is the least bad option for the Big Three automakers.
- If There’s Nothing to Do, Do Nothing THE AMERICAN 12/11/2008
- Loews Corporation CEO James Tisch explains why he doesn't like leverage and why cutting capital gains taxes will flood the U.S. Treasury with money.
- Tim Geithner’s Challenge Desmond Lachman 12/10/2008
- Now is the time for a bold new economic strategy. Let’s hope that Team Obama delivers one.
- Don’t Bail Out the Big Three Daniel J. Ikenson 11/21/2008
- The U.S. auto industry needs a shakeout, not a bailout. What we are witnessing is an attempted shakedown.
- The G-20 Summit Was a Failure Desmond Lachman 11/18/2008
- Global financial markets want an immediate, bold, and coordinated policy response. G-20 members did not provide it.
- Banking Lessons From Sweden Waldemar Ingdahl 11/10/2008
- What can global policymakers learn from the Swedish financial crisis of the early 1990s?