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March 2, 2020, Opinion: "As America's campaign season heats up, President Donald Trump is using Venezuela's tragedy as a political weapon, arguing that a similar fate awaits…
February 26, 2020, Paper: "This is a curious debate on which much seems to turn on “the stroke of a pen.” Do banks create money or are they intermediaries between depositors…
February 24, 2020, Opinion: "The COVID-19 outbreak seems to have raised the odds of a global recession dramatically. But even if no downturn materializes in the near term,…
Data and code for: Automatic stabilizers in a low-rate environment. Lawrence Summers, February 16, 2020, Dataset, "In a world where monetary policy cannot assume responsibility…
February 2020, Paper: "Until the 2008–09 financial crisis, macroeconomic stabilization policy focused nearly exclusively on monetary policy. It made good sense. In terms of…
January 22, 2020, Video, "Harvard Kennedy School Professor Carmen Reinhart discusses the current state of the U.S. economy and Federal Reserve monetary policy. She talks with…
2020, Paper, "States experience recessions that differ in magnitude and timing from national recessions, and those state-level recessions have significant economic and social…
January 9, 2020, Opinion, "After years of maintaining a dysfunctional political economy based on sectarianism and rentierism, Lebanon's ruling elites are being confronted with…
December 9, 2019, Opinion, "With interest rates on government debt at multi-decade lows, a number of leading economists have argued that almost every advanced economy can allow…
December 6, 2019, Paper, "The existence of comprehensive social policies to compensate those who might be harmed by integration is widely seen as an important precondition for…