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Has China Overtaken America?
Is America in danger of being “permanently overtaken by China’s technological and economic prowess,” as economist Paul Krugman argues? CNBC analyst Jim Cramer instead suggests China has “a press release economy.” Is the economic data even reliable?
Featuring commentary by Dean Baker, Paul Cavey, Patrick M. Cronin, Jason Furman, James K. Galbraith, Nicholas R. Lardy, Jennifer Lind, Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Jim O’Neill, Derek Scissors, Atman Trivedi, Stan Veuger, Logan Wright, and Fuxian Yi.
How to understand the U.S.-China economic showdown. TIE Executive Editor Owen Ullmann interviews Dan Wang, author of the new book Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future.
The World’s Rare Earth China Fiasco
But just as fracking broke U.S. dependence on foreign oil, will there be alternatives that break China’s rare earth monopoly?
Is China’s Economic Policy Too Cautious?
Resilience is not the same as momentum.
Everything You Want to Know About the Future of Central Banking
But were afraid to ask.
Will Artificial Intelligence Turn Out to Be a Dream Killer?
Could artificial intelligence add to the already ferocious hate and contempt felt by many Americans toward their political leaders, toward their country, and toward themselves as they sit day after day, watching a screen, with nothing to do?
Featuring commentary by Robert D. Atkinson, Dean Baker, Marjory S. Blumenthal, Michael J. Boskin, Adam Garfinkle, Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Joseph V. Kennedy, Mickey D. Levy, Michael Lind, Brink Lindsey, Robert E. Litan, and Robert A. Manning.
The Coming New World Order of Instability
The feedback loop is becoming a doom loop. An excerpt from Eswar S. Prasad’s new book The Doom Loop: Why the World Economic Order Is Spiraling into Disorder.
France’s Pathological Crisis
The budgetary equation has become untenable.
Europe’s Problem Is Not Lack of Capital
It’s a lack of courage.
Beyond scams and volatility, crypto is planting the seeds of political self-enrichment amongst the cracks of public corruption law.
Washington’s Fundamental Mistake
A review of Bill McKibben’s new book, Here Comes the Sun.
Off the News
Why the world could soon hate America even more, chance of a booming 2026 U.S. economy, whether Trump’s Congressional base is in trouble, early Warsh, where the wealth is, and TIE Bookshelf.
Letter to the Editor
Paul Blustein responds to Ken Rogoff.
Trump and Xi: Bully buddies in arms.
Letter from Berlin
The Merz government’s sly tricks. How officials are circumventing the rules on borrowing.