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China's Self-Destructive Tech Takedown

China’s leaders think that they can crack down on the country’s private technology sector and still deliver material progress as state-owned companies take over. But by reversing the policies that enabled decades of rapid growth, they risk imperiling the unique economic model they seek to sustain.

Inflation in the 21st Century: Taking Down the Inflationary Straw Man of the 1970s

This overview of the history of, and future prospects for, undesirable levels of price inflation in the U.S. economy concludes that concerns raised in 2021 by several well-known economists and analysts – regarding the prospects for accelerating levels of inflation as a result of pandemic-era and post-pandemic fiscal and monetary policy (enacted and proposed) – is misplaced.

Revised Global Principles for Sustainable Securities Lending Issued Alongside Opening Signatories

Global Principles for Sustainable Securities Lending (Global PSSL) today published fully revised and updated principles for sustainable securities lending alongside invited opening signatories, available here.

IMF Shifts Approach to Low Income Countries and Special Drawing Rights

Fanfare exceeds reality

Before its summer recess, the International Monetary Fund board tackled two key operational issues – future concessional support for low income countries and ‘channelling’ special drawing rights.

Sooner or Later, Climate Change Is Coming for Your Wallet

Last week Gary Gensler, the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, made what seemed like an uncontroversial statement: “I think we can bring greater clarity to climate risk disclosures.”

CBDC-50 Years After the End of Bretton Woods

50 years ago, the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates came to a sudden stop. It seemed the end of an era of multilateral and rules-based monetary cooperation considered critical to facilitate international payments.

Fuzzynomics and 12 Other Attempts to Name Our New Era

In hindsight, our new economic era probably began in 2008, when a handful of bankers — and the policymakers who write the rules — broke the system.

Now and Later: The Urgent Need for Smart Finance and Clear Governance on Pandemic Threats

Eighteen months into the worst pandemic in a century, we still don’t have a credible, fully financed, time bound battle plan to bring this suffering to an end.

Innovation-Based Economic Security

To benefit from today’s globalized research and development, the United States needs to make science and technology policies an integral part of economic security.

Visualizing the Debt Service Drag on Developing Country Governments

The G7 countries pledged a massive scale-up in support of developing-country financing at their recent summit in the UK.