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NYT Book Reviews: ‘The Age of Stagnation’ and ‘The Only Game in Town’

Originally appeared in the New York Times Even more than income inequality, slow growth sits firmly atop the leader board of global economic worries. Among the most prosperous countries — the Group of 7 — not a single nation is achieving an acceptable rate of expansion. Once formidable emerging countries are in disarray: Brazil and […]

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What’s Our Duty to the People Globalization Leaves Behind?

Originally appeared in the New York Times A FEW days ago, I visited the shiny headquarters of the Peterson Institute for International Economics on “think tank row” in Washington — basically, the locker room of the Team Globalization and Free Trade cheering squad. I was there to take part in a discussion of an old […]

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2015: The Year in Charts

Originally published in The New York Times By the end of 2015, the economy — still leaving too many Americans behind — has regrettably almost disappeared from the news, overshadowed by the twin evils of Donald J. Trump and the Islamic State. Meanwhile, Congress continued to burnish its record of doing little that was constructive, […]

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The New York Times: Biden’s Get-Tough-on-China Tariffs May Backfire

The tide of globalization is receding, at least from American shores. Two successive presidents have...

The New York Times: What Trump Would Do To Our Economy

Originally published in The New York Times. Much to fear about another Donald Trump presidency: ...

The New York Times: America’s Broken Immigration System, In One Chart

The immigration problem Congress faces is large and complex. Let’s break it down. Between Octob...

More than Words: 10 Charts That Defined 2023

Some years are defined by a single event or person — a pandemic, a recession, an insurrection — ...

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