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Jeffrey D. Sachs
By Jeffrey D. Sachs - Oct 18,2018
NEW YORK — America continues to be in a state of civil war. Not just a civil war, but the civil war. In the first round, back in the 1860s, the Confederacy lost. Yet, now the Confederacy is temporarily on top.
By Jeffrey D. Sachs - Sep 04,2018
NEW YORK — Back in 1965, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, then France’s minister of finance, famously called the benefits that the United States reaped from the dollar’s role as the world’s main reserve currency an “exorbitant privilege”.
By Jeffrey D. Sachs - Aug 05,2018
NEW YORK — Modern humans, born into one climate era, called the Holocene, have crossed the border into another, the Anthropocene.
By Jeffrey D. Sachs - Jun 20,2018
NEW YORK — The climate crisis we now face is a reflection of a broader crisis: a global confusion of means and ends.
By Jeffrey D. Sachs - May 21,2018
NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s renunciation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran and the reimposition of US sanctions on that country threaten global peace. Europe’s security depends on defending the agreement with Iran despite the US withdrawal.
By Jeffrey D. Sachs - Apr 21,2018
NEW YORK — Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook, recently noted that the public scrutiny of Facebook is “very much overdue”, declaring that “it’s shocking to me that they did not have to answer more of these questions earlier on”. Leaders in the information technology sect
By Jeffrey D. Sachs - Nov 30,2017
Friends of Germany and Europe around the world have been breathing a sigh of relief at the newfound willingness of Germany’s Christian Democrats and Social Democrats (SPD) to discuss reprising their grand coalition government. The world needs a strong and forward-looking Ger
By Jeffrey D. Sachs - Sep 30,2017
Fifteen years after George W.
By Jeffrey D. Sachs - Aug 12,2017
The US is in the midst of a political meltdown, unable to manage a domestic economic agenda or a coherent foreign policy. The White House is in turmoil; Congress is paralysed; and the world is looking on in astonishment and dread.
By Jeffrey D. Sachs - Jul 26,2017
O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!

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