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Brazil’s Post-Impeachment Economics
Financial markets’ renewed fondness for Brazil—the country’s stock market has rallied 60 percent this year—is hard to square with the country’s increa...
Sep 06, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Brazil’s Economic Malaise Rekindled as Olympic Flame Goes Out
Monica de Bolle outlines the tough economic challenges facing Brazilian acting President Michel Temer now that the Olympic games are finished and Dilm...
Aug 31, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Uneasy Calm at Fed’s Jackson Hole Conference
Adam S. Posen says the mood at the annual Economic Policy Symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, whi...
Aug 31, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
The sky fell on the US poultry industry last year. But NAFTA and the TPP helped protect US exports.
Migrating birds don’t pay much attention to border regulations, it turns out. But last year’s “bird flu” outbreak, a huge blow to parts of the US poul...
Aug 30, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Evaluating the IMF’s Performance on Financial-Sector Aspects of the Euro Area Crisis
The Peterson Institute has posted The IMF’s Role in the Euro Area Crisis: Financial Sector Aspects on its website, and a parallel publication has been...
Aug 29, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
The Republican Bankruptcy Illusion
There is now near-unanimity that the United States' Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation, enacted in 2010, did not end the problems associated with...
Jul 31, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
China’s SOE Reform—The Wrong Path
A key component of China’s SOE reform strategy—mergers of the largest firms in the same industry—seems very unlikely to improve the efficiency of bloa...
Jul 28, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
The Divergent Postcommunist Paths to Democracy and Economic Freedom
This paper presents evidence from 29 postcommunist countries that the economic transition has been more successful than the political transformation i...
Jul 28, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
US Exit From WTO Would Unravel Global Trade
In his latest attack on US trade policy, Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump has threatened to exit the 163-country World Trade Organiza...
Jul 26, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
The US Filed a WTO Dispute to Save Jobs—by Increasing Imports from China: Here’s Why
In the latest salvo against free trade, Donald Trump argued that the World Trade Organization is a disaster and fails to protect US interests—and said...
Jul 26, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
The Next European Financial Capital: London
The race to succeed London as the next European financial capital is on. “We know that groups based in the City are planning to leave for Dublin, Amst...
Jul 25, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
China Chart: Tracking China’s Debt
Chinese banks were at it again in June with another steep increase in the amount of lending. New renminbi loans increased by $200 billion, no doubt a ...
Jul 22, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail