From the Fall 2017 issue
Does the Conventional Wisdom About Productivity Need to Be Reconsidered?
Conventional wisdom holds that U.S. productivity growth, the weakest it has been in more than a quarter-century, is the reason for today’s subpar GDP growth and low wages. But is the conventional wisdom correct?
Featuring commentary from Marco Annunziata, Martin Neil Baily, Jared Bernstein, Michael J. Boskin, Richard N. Cooper, Marek Dabrowski, Everett M. Ehrlich, Barry Eichengreen, Mohamed A. El-Erian, Martin Feldstein, Jeffrey A. Frankel, Jason Furman, James K. Galbraith, Robert J. Gordon, Richard C. Koo, Michael Lind, Robert E. Litan, Edward N. Luttwak, Michael Mandel, Catherine L. Mann, J.W. Mason, Jim O’Neill, Rudolph G. Penner, Roger B. Porter, and Bret Swanson.
How to avoid global economic Armageddon as a result of fossil fuel’s demise.
Today’s Global Rubik’s Cube of Frustration
TIE Founder and Editor David Smick sits down with Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic advisor for Allianz and author of The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse.
The World’s Scariest Emerging Market
Welcome to America.
A top Reagan economist paints a damaging picture of an economic tradeoff that continues to confound.
TIE Founder and Editor David Smick interviews Danièle Nouy, the chief supervisor responsible for supervising the 120 largest banking groups in the euro area.
Macron’s Visions Confront Merkel’s Reality
The recent German election results may be more disruptive than Trump and Brexit put together.
It’s in the world’s interest for Brexit to be successful.
Politics über alles.
Sooner or later, how the Chinese renminbi is going to shake up the global financial system.
The Cunning of a Currency Trader
And the talent of Laurence Olivier.
A Missed Opportunity, China and the Minsky Moment, Seven New Myths of the Twenty-First Century