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May 29, 2023, Opinion: "Farmers in the western United States argue that without access to relatively affordable water for cultivating feed-related crops such as alfalfa, the cost…
April 25, 2023, Opinion: "Even if they manage to convince their creditors to restructure their debts, commodity-exporting debtor countries are still vulnerable to sudden price…
February 17, 2023, Opinion: "Efforts to prohibit financial institutions from considering environmental, social, and governance criteria reflect a fundamental misunderstanding of…
November 29, 2022, Opinion: "Efforts to reduce global greenhouse-gas emissions must overcome the free-rider problem, and carbon border adjustment measures are the most effective…
Foreseeable Unforeseeables. Jeffrey Frankel, March 27, 2020, Opinion, "Contrary to what US President Donald Trump would like to believe, a pandemic like COVID-19 was predicted as…
February 24, 2020, Opinion: "The COVID-19 outbreak seems to have raised the odds of a global recession dramatically. But even if no downturn materializes in the near term,…
The US Recovery Turns Ten. Jeffrey Frankel, June 14, 2019, Opinion, "The best explanation for the current ten-year US economic expansion – tied for the longest since 1854 – is…
US will lack fiscal space to respond when next recession comes. Jeffrey Frankel, August 28, 2018, Opinion, "The US economy is doing well. But the next recession – and there…
The Depth of the Next US Recession. Jeffrey Frankel, August 27, 2018, Opinion, "Whatever the immediate trigger of the next US recession, the consequences are likely to be severe.…
Mnuchin’s Mission. Jeffrey Frankel, March 22, 2017, Opinion, "US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is hemmed in on all sides. Domestically, he’s trapped between the promises…