Policy debates around climate change frequently focus on the trade-off between the near-term costs of reducing carbon emissions and the…
The EU and the US have taken starkly different approaches to the regulation of new monies issued using distributed ledger…
The role of the US dollar is much in the news because confidence in it has been shaken by erratic…
Politicians often wager their campaigns on big-ticket promises. Donald Trump rode to power in 2016 vowing to build a US–Mexico…
The introduction of value added taxes has been widely perceived as successful, boosting government revenue and stimulating industrialisation. This contrasts…
Forecasts play a pivotal role in fiscal policymaking. They are not simply attempts to predict the future but critical instruments…
While the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1973 has traditionally been seen as heralding a major shift towards…
Services are becoming increasingly important in global trade. This column shows that strong growth in services trade was driven by…
Banking crises have repeatedly inflicted serious damage on the real economy. This column discusses a new proposal for a public…
Moody’s downgraded the US Treasury from top notch by one notch. This second in a series of three columns describes…