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What Fiscally Sound Industrial Policy Can Do
What Fiscally Sound Industrial Policy Can Do
May 2, 2024 Keun Lee highlights three tools that can support domestic-market growth and development without breaking the bank.
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Why Voters Are Unhappy About the Biden Economy
Why Voters Are Unhappy About the Biden Economy
May 2, 2024 Michael J. Boskin explains why Americans do not share the White House’s rosy assessment of its economic track record.
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Our Freedoms Depend on Press Freedom
Our Freedoms Depend on Press Freedom
May 2, 2024 Jodie Ginsberg warns that the increased targeting of journalists and the media is a key indicator of democratic erosion.
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Climate Change Is a Worse Health Threat Than We Think
Climate Change Is a Worse Health Threat Than We Think
May 2, 2024 Manica Balasegaram warns that the world is underestimating the extent to which global warming will fuel antimicrobial resistance.
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Musk Has Made Tesla a Meme Stock
Musk Has Made Tesla a Meme Stock
May 1, 2024 J. Bradford DeLong worries that the first mover in electric vehicles is increasingly running on bucket-shop hype.
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The US Treasury’s Bond Blunder Will Cost Gen Z Dearly
The US Treasury’s Bond Blunder Will Cost Gen Z Dearly
May 1, 2024 Todd G. Buchholz & James Carter thinks the US should have locked in favorable borrowing rates when it had the chance.
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What’s Driving the Global Gold Rush?
What’s Driving the Global Gold Rush?
May 1, 2024 Harold James considers the political factors pushing the price of the “barbarous relic” to all-time highs.
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Global Elections in the Shadow of Neoliberalism
Global Elections in the Shadow of Neoliberalism
May 1, 2024 Joseph E. Stiglitz considers what 40 years of anti-government, low-tax, deregulatory advocacy have wrought around the world.
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Averting Climate Catastrophe Requires Economic Growth
Averting Climate Catastrophe Requires Economic Growth
May 1, 2024 Alessio Terzi & Gernot Wagner show why shrinking the global economy, as envisaged by advocates of degrowth, is a bad way to cut emissions.