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Scotland after sterling
By Barry Eichengreen - Oct 14,2020
BERKELEY — The odds of Scotland becoming independent are rising by the day. In Scotland’s 2014 referendum, some 45 per cent of voters favored independence.
The pandemic’s most treacherous phase
By Barry Eichengreen - Sep 14,2020
BERKELEY — April marked the most dramatic and, some would say, dangerous phase of the COVID-19 crisis in the United States.
Dollar sensationalism
By Barry Eichengreen - Aug 16,2020
BERKELEY — The dollar is in free-fall! The global greenback is doomed! scream recent headlines.
Training for the pandemic economy
By Barry Eichengreen - Jul 14,2020
BERKELEY — COVID-19 is not going away, and other dangerous viruses may be coming. This means it is time to face the grim truth: many of the pandemic’s effects on our economies and societies will be persistent, even permanent.Some of these changes are already evident.
Rage against the pandemic
By Barry Eichengreen - Jun 08,2020
BERKELEY — Two weeks of massive, nationwide demonstrations against police violence and racial bias have raised concerns about a second wave of COVID-19 infections in the United States.
America’s isolationist default
By Barry Eichengreen - Feb 12,2020
BERKELEY — Donald Trump’s “America First” policies are widely regarded as an abdication of global leadership, sounding the death knell of the post-World War II multilateral order that the United States shaped and sustained. There is much truth to this view.
Democratising the ECB
By Barry Eichengreen - Jan 15,2020
AMSTERDAM — The European Central Bank (ECB) is undergoing a changing of the guard: A new president, a new chief economist and two new executive board members.
The policy debate Europe needs
By Barry Eichengreen - Dec 10,2019
SASKATOON — The eurozone is in a bind. Despite successive doses of monetary stimulus by the European Central Bank (ECB), inflation remains stubbornly below target.
Will China confront a revolution of rising expectations?
By Barry Eichengreen - Nov 12,2019
ZURICH — For over a decade, China has accounted for a quarter or more of global economic growth.
Will Libra be stillborn?
By Barry Eichengreen - Oct 16,2019
CHICAGO — Plans for Facebook’s proposed “stablecoin”, Libra, appear to be unravelling with the withdrawal of PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, eBay and Mercado Pago as potential sponsors.

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