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By Barry Eichengreen - Jul 22,2015
Whatever one thinks about the tactics of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s government in negotiations with the country’s creditors, the Greek people deserve better than what they are being offered.
By Barry Eichengreen - Feb 14,2015
Around the world, central banks’ balance sheets are becoming an increasingly serious concern — most notably for monetary policy makers themselves.
When the Swiss National Bank (SNB) abandoned its exchange rate peg last month, causing the franc to soar by a nosebleed
By Barry Eichengreen - Nov 15,2014
Insecurity is haunting Ukraine — and not just geopolitical insecurity, but economic insecurity as well.
Output is in freefall.
By Barry Eichengreen - Aug 16,2014
For the leaders of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), the announcement in July of their agreement to establish a “New Development Bank” (NDB) and a “Contingent Reserve Arrangement” (CRA) was a public relations coup.
The o
By Barry Eichengreen - Jul 26,2014
European and Chinese officials have made two notable announcements in recent weeks. On June 18, China’s second largest financial institution, China Construction Bank, was designated as the official renminbi clearing bank for London.
By Barry Eichengreen - Jun 28,2014
With Jeremy Stein’s return to his academic post at Harvard at the end of May, the US Federal Reserve Board lost its leading proponent of the view that monetary policy should be used to lean against financial excesses.
Stein’s view, expressed in a speech earlier this
By Barry Eichengreen - May 10,2014
Two of the world’s most prominent economic institutions, the International Monetary Fund and former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers, recently warned that the global economy may be facing an extended period of low interest rates.
Why is that a bad thing and what can be
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