SINGAPORE — The last two years have been catastrophic for investors in US Treasury bonds. By one measure, 2022 was the worst year for such investors since 1788.

BERKELEY — Frontier markets are back. Several African countries have recently returned to global financial markets, placing foreign-currency bonds with international investors.

BERKELEY — For precisely three years, the economics profession has been collectively fixated on inflation.

FLORENCE — It has become fashionable of late to compare US President Joe Biden in 2023 to Jimmy Carter in 1979.

KAUAI — Is the dollar poised to lose its dominance of global economic and financial transactions?

 MARRAKESH — Industrial policy is back. It is back with a vengeance in the United States, where for decades the dominant ideology and policy minimised government efforts to influence the structure of the economy.

 BERKELEY — US President Joe Biden and his team get little credit for their management of the American economy.

NEW DELHI — The debate over using frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine’s reconstruction is coming to a head. The arguments in favor are compelling. The objections are weak.

BERKELEY — When the United States and its G-7 partners imposed sanctions on Russia’s central bank and barred Western financial institutions from doing business with Russian counterparties, commentators warned of far-reaching changes in the global monetary and financial order.