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Business News > Mint Authors > Barry Eichengreen

Barry Eichengreen

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ARTICLES BY BARRY EICHENGREEN

Economic relations between the US and China have never been worse.

US-China relations need a reset before we all end up paying a heavy price

4 min read . 16 Sep 2024

Late last year, the US and China successfully negotiated the Sunnylands Statement affirming their commitment to work together to combat climate change. (Getty Images via AFP)

The US elections will have a big impact on the climate change fight

4 min read . 18 Aug 2024

The IMF needs to reinvigorate its analysis of the cross-border spillovers of large-country policies, a process the US has managed to squelch. (AFP)

IMF reform reality: The US and China must cooperate, willy-nilly

4 min read . 22 Jul 2024

In the IMF’s estimation, US government debt is on a sustainable path. (AFP)

America’s debt is sustainable but sustaining it will be a challenge

4 min read . 16 Jun 2024

Rapid US growth creates expectations of slow US disinflation. (AFP)

America’s strong dollar: Would a Trump presidency weaken it?

4 min read . 21 May 2024

US productivity growth had accelerated relative to Europe’s already in the decade leading up to the pandemic, when labour markets were not so tight.

Why is Europe losing the productivity race to America?

3 min read . 19 Apr 2024

Investors are betting that yields on US Treasuries and other advanced-economy bonds will come down once the US Fed and European Central Bank (ECB) declare victory in their fight against inflation.

Frontier-market debt is back in favour but with attendant risks

3 min read . 17 Mar 2024

Some argue that the Federal Reserve played little role in the recent decline of inflation.

Monetary policy had a relevant role in the US inflation episode

4 min read . 19 Feb 2024

The Biden administration must cope with Iran’s provocations in Syria and Lebanon, where it provides support for Hezbollah’s missile strikes on Israel, and in the Red Sea, where it supports Houthi attacks on passing cargo ships.

No, Joe Biden’s political career is not going the same way as Jimmy Carter’s did

3 min read . 21 Jan 2024

World War l left a tangled financial web: some $30 billion of reparations owed by Germany to the victorious European Allies, and $10 billion of war debts owed by the Allies to the US.

The debt crisis staring at poorer countries must be resolved once and for all

4 min read . 19 Dec 2023

Recent economic histories provide convincing narratives of the pivotal role of government policies in fostering industrialization in the 19th century.

Political processes matter much for industrial policy to succeed

4 min read . 16 Oct 2023

Biden exercised welcome restraint by not pressuring America’s central bank to maintain its accommodative stance, in contrast with previous American presidents such as Richard Nixon and Donald Trump. (Getty Images via AFP)

Inflation may haunt Biden’s poll fortunes even if it cools further

4 min read . 16 Aug 2023

Already, there are signs of Ukrainian aid fatigue, and critics ask why Western countries should bear the costs of a war they didn’t start. (REUTERS)

The world can’t overlook the long shadow of Versailles

4 min read . 26 Jul 2023

The AI arms race will create both winners and losers

4 min read . 16 May 2023

The SVB murder mystery echoes a famous Agatha Christie novel

4 min read . 16 Apr 2023

A BPO in Gurgaon. The US is worried about India’s cyber preparedness as it’s a major hub to which banks and other companies outsource business processes, experts say. Photo: Mint (Mint)

Technology, not geopolitics, may recast the world monetary order

4 min read . 19 Mar 2023

People walk past the US Federal Reserve building in Washington, DC (AFP)

America’s imminent debt crisis: Much ado about nothing scary

4 min read . 15 Feb 2023

Sympathy for the algorithm: It’s short of originality and empathy

4 min read . 17 Jan 2023

Photo: Bloomberg

Spare a thought for the trilemma of central bank digital currencies

4 min read . 13 Nov 2022

British prime minister Liz Truss

The ghost of Black Wednesday still haunts the British economy

3 min read . 19 Sep 2022