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Argentina’s COVID miracle
By Joseph E. Stiglitz - Jan 12,2022
NEW YORK — Although COVID-19 has been hard on everyone, it has not been an “equal opportunity” disease. The virus poses a greater threat to those who are already in poor health, many of whom are concentrated in poor countries with weak public-health systems.
Why Jerome Powell must go
By Joseph E. Stiglitz - Nov 13,2021
NEW YORK — US President Joe Biden faces a critical decision: Whom to appoint as chair of the Federal Reserve (Fed), arguably the most powerful position in the global economy.The wrong choice can have grave consequences.
COVID-19 and human freedom
By Joseph E. Stiglitz - Sep 09,2021
NEW YORK — The upsurge of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in the United States serves as a bitter reminder that the pandemic is not over.
Getting finance onside for climate
By Joseph E. Stiglitz - Aug 28,2021
NEW YORK — The world has finally awoken to the existential imperative of securing a rapid transition to a green economy. Finance will play a pivotal role in that process.
The global tax devil is in the details
By Joseph E. Stiglitz - Jul 07,2021
NEW YORK — It appears that the international community is moving towards what many are calling a historic agreement to set a global minimum tax rate on multinational corporations (MNCs).
The inflation red herring
By Joseph E. Stiglitz - Jun 07,2021
NEW YORK — Slight increases in the rate of inflation in the United States and Europe have triggered financial-market anxieties.
Biden goes big
By Joseph E. Stiglitz - Feb 06,2021
NEW YORK  —  US President Joe Biden has proposed a $1.9 trillion rescue plan to help the American economy recover from the pandemic.
How Biden can restore multilateralism unilaterally
By Joseph E. Stiglitz - Jan 02,2021
NEW YORK — There is so much to celebrate with the new year. The arrival of safe, effective COVID-19 vaccines means that there is light at the end of the pandemic tunnel (though the next few months will be horrific).
What Yellen must do
By Joseph E. Stiglitz - Dec 04,2020
NEW YORK — US President-elect Joe Biden’s decision to appoint Janet Yellen as the next secretary of the Treasury is good news for America and the world.
The Republican threat to the republic
By Joseph E. Stiglitz - Oct 03,2020
NEW YORK — Whereas Nero famously fiddled while Rome burned, US President Donald Trump has famously hit the links at his money-losing golf courses while California burns — and as more than 200,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 — for which he himself has now tested positive.

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