Global Economic News Digest

A specialized media service working to raise awareness among the general public and policy-makers on the most prominent effects of the Corona virus on the global economy, and the policy responses of various countries affected by the pandemic (using reliable international research and media sources that are updated periodically).

13 feb 2022

Central banks should be cautious in calibrating a response to inflation

Central banks should be cautious in calibrating a response to inflation They have the chance to be the hero of the ho...

11 feb 2022

Economics should never waste a good crisis

Economics should never waste a good crisis THE EDITORIAL BOARD Max Planck, the Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist, ha...

10 feb 2022

How to Deal with a “Bretton Woods Moment”

How to Deal with a “Bretton Woods Moment” A new global economic system has to be based on a key principle...

07 feb 2022

What We Lose When Work Gets Too Casual

What We Lose When Work Gets Too Casual Ms. Spiers is a writer and digital media strategist. She was the editor in chief of Th...

07 feb 2022

Death By Price Tag: The Commodities Bubble Explained

Death By Price Tag: The Commodities Bubble Explained “We have got someone that is morbidly overweight,” a...

07 feb 2022

Crypto and the Power of Folk Economics

Crypto and the Power of Folk Economics This week, we continue our discussion about speculative financial technologies, specif...

06 feb 2022

? Is This What Winning Looks Like

Is This What Winning Looks Like? Time For a Victory Lap* *Some terms and conditions apply. Modern Monetary Theory, t...

04 feb 2022

? What does it mean to “decolonize” economics

What does it mean to “decolonize” economics? “The mainstream [economics] depiction of the developme...

04 feb 2022

The End of the Pandemic May Tear Us Apart

The End of the Pandemic May Tear Us Apart Much for Palestine to think about in this. Dr. Petersen is a professor of...

04 feb 2022

Larry Summers on inflation, the Fed, the year ahead

Larry Summers on inflation, the Fed, the year ahead Former Treasury secretary lays out need for Fed intervention, political c...

02 feb 2022

Ibn Khaldun the economist

Ibn Khaldun the economist Neoclassical economists created a false narrative of the history of economics. In one of...

02 feb 2022

? Does Inflation Discredit Left-Wing Policies

Does Inflation Discredit Left-Wing Policies? No, it does not. Consumer prices have increased at a rapid...

01 feb 2022

Inflation Paranoia Threatens Recovery

Inflation Paranoia Threatens Recovery Inflation hawks are winning. A ‘beggar thyself’ race to raise inter...

30 jan 2022

Gravity at 60: A celebration of the workhorse model of trade

Gravity at 60: A celebration of the workhorse model of trade This year marks the 60th anniversary of the workhorse mo...

29 jan 2022

? How is Omicron affecting the global economic recovery

How is Omicron affecting the global economic recovery? High-frequency data suggest the effect may be limited—an...

11 jan 2022

Inflation Heresies

Inflation Heresies CAMBRIDGE – The specter of inflation is once again stalking the world, after a long period o...

07 jan 2022

The Effect of Inequality on the Transmission of Monetary and Fiscal Policy - Liberty Street Economics

The Effect of Inequality on the Transmission of Monetary and Fiscal Policy - Liberty Street Economics Monetary policy can have a me...

04 jan 2022

The Ticking Bomb of Crypto Fascism

The crypto market’s inevitable crash will pull America’s politics in an even scarier direction. Making predictions about loom...

02 jan 2022

Why My MBA Students Turned Against Business

Even My Business-School Students Have Doubts About Capitalism A generation raised amid major economic turmoil needs more reassurance that...

29 dec 2021

Would Keynes have bought Bitcoin? — classic economics vs. crypto

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was the greatest economist of the twentieth century. Less well known is that he had a parallel career a...