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October 2, 2020, Opinion: "From early on in the Covid-19 pandemic, a common refrain has been, “At least maybe now we will get serious about addressing climate change.” One can…
August 21, 2020, Opinion: "The US Federal Reserve has rightly eased monetary policy aggressively since the onset of the coronavirus recession in March. But gold bugs would take…
July 31, 2020, Opinion, "As COVID-19 continues its global march, the whole world is paying the price for some countries' negligent and incompetent political leadership and the…
July 22, 2020, Video, "In this episode of Harvard Kennedy School's Dean's Discussions, vlog faculty members discuss the impact of COVID-19 on developing countries, and what public…
June 15, 2020, Opinion, "After months of plummeting output and employment, the National Bureau of Economic Research has determined its official start date for the current…
May 28, 2020, Opinion, "Once again, new economic readings from the World Bank's International Comparison Program have fed into the long-going debate over whether China is…
May 1, 2020, Opinion, "As policymakers plan their COVID-19 responses, policymakers should remember a simple rule of thumb: let “W” stand for premature "withdrawal" of public-…
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 26, 2020, Opinion: "At the start of this year, things seemed to be looking up for the global economy. True, growth had slowed a bit in 2019: from 2.9% to 2.3% in the…
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,…