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Barry Eichengreen

Mint columnist

Barry Eichengreen is professor of economics and political science at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author, most recently, of ‘In Defense of Public Debt’

ARTICLES BY BARRY EICHENGREEN

Removing checks on presidential powers while arbitrarily exempting the Fed opens the door to arbitrarily not exempting the US central bank. (Bloomberg)

Barry Eichengreen: Is the US Federal Reserve’s independence at threat?

4 min read . 16 Jun 2025

Some lessons, once learnt, are not easily unlearnt. (AFP)

Barry Eichengreen: The end of American exceptionalism?

4 min read . 15 May 2025

The US, to all appearances, is going down the opposite path the pound sterling followed. (Bloomberg News)

Barry Eichengreen: The sterling’s past may offer clues to the dollar’s future

4 min read . 16 Apr 2025

Trump will no longer be able to blame former President Joe Biden’s administration for inflation, so he will likely blame the Fed. (AFP)

Barry Eichengreen: Trump is taking aim at the IMF, World Bank and US Fed

4 min read . 19 Mar 2025

If China closes the technology gap faster than it otherwise would have, then US export controls will have proven ineffectual or even counter-productive. (Nvidia)

Barry Eichengreen: US export curbs on high-tech enablers have rarely worked

4 min read . 17 Feb 2025

Whether doing so would enhance the competitiveness of American exports and strengthen America’s trade balance is quite another matter. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File) (AP)

Can Donald Trump really weaken the dollar to enhance US trade competitiveness?

4 min read . 16 Jan 2025

Biden’s inheritance also included a pandemic-stricken economy, creating ample scope for output and employment to bounce back.

An economic requiem for the Biden administration

6 min read . 31 Dec 2024

A crisis that prompts a wholesale rethink of the institutional inheritance could conceivably break the logjam.

Germany’s economic crisis offers it an opportunity to break an old gridlock

4 min read . 12 Dec 2024

Policymakers in emerging markets have offered a long list of possible substitutes for the dollar. None of their proposals has borne fruit.

The idea of a Brics currency is looking like a charade

1 min read . 20 Nov 2024

Some argue that European integration is driven or stymied by hard-headed bargaining among governments.

The Draghi report has rung an alarm that Europe can’t afford to sleep through

4 min read . 24 Oct 2024

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