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Sunday, November 28, 2010

How Chinese Inflation Policy Will Shape the Yuan-Dollar Exchange Rate

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By freezing its exchange rate and pulling out all the stops on fiscal and monetary stimulus, China got through the global recession with onl...
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

No Fix For US Fiscal Policy without New Rules

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A short time ago, I wrote that the EU needs better rules for fiscal policy. So does the United States. A new report from the Peterson-Pew ...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Update on Fiscal Consolidation: The Draft Report of The President's Debt Commission

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My initial reaction to yesterday's draft report of the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform is very positi...
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

India's Secret Weapon in its Economic Race with China

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The eclipse of the G7 by the G20 puts the spotlight more than ever on India and China as the economic superpowers of the future. So far, Chi...
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Sunday, November 7, 2010

Could QE2 Cause the Fed to Go Broke?

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The Fed's new program of quantitative easing, QE2, once again raises an old question: Can central banks go broke? Conventional analysis,...
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The Economics of a Soda Tax: Update

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My April post on The Economics of a Soda Tax has been a favorite with readers, drawing more hits than almost any other post on microeconomi...
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Thursday, November 4, 2010

EU Leaders Struggle to Fix Fiscal Policy Rules

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At a summit last week, EU leaders made another try to fix their fiscal policy rules. Why is this latest round of tinkering unlikely to solve...