Trade
China’s trade surplus is widening, its manufactured exports are surging, and the political backlash is intensifying. This column argues that the widening trade surplus reflects
October 16, 2026
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Finance
Geoeconomic risk has become a first-order concern for investors. This column shows that domestic US stocks expose investors to substantial geoeconomic risk through firms’ global
October 16, 2026
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Education
Whether teaching a cognitive skill remains valuable in this era of AI is a crucial question in education and for firms. This column reports on
October 16, 2026
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Energy
Europe’s output losses proved limited following the 2022 cutoff of Russian gas flows, yet inflation rose sharply. This column uses weather variation and gas-market events
October 16, 2026
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Finance
Debate over whether buoyant equity markets reflect durable economic gains or a widening gap between Wall Street and Main Street has intensified with the AI
October 12, 2026
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Innovation
Professional judgement comes from learning by doing: junior workers in law, medicine, science, engineering, and consulting (among others) master foundational skills by performing core job
October 12, 2026
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Banking
Geopolitical tensions are increasingly reshaping the flow of trade, investment and capital flows. This column documents that the same process is also reshaping bank lending.
October 12, 2026
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Artificial Intelligence
The cyber threat landscape changed dramatically in April 2026 with the emergence of frontier AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic. Access to these models was
October 8, 2026
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Finance
Emerging market economies that are expected to perform well may attract more foreign capital, making it difficult to establish the causal effects of capital inflows
October 8, 2026
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CLimate Change
Reaching net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050, as prescribed by the Paris Agreement, is hard to imagine without a carbon tax. This column estimates that reaching
October 8, 2026
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