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Clive Crook

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Is the Dollar’s Era of Exorbitant Privilege Ending?

Is the Dollar’s Era of Exorbitant Privilege Ending?
15.07.2025 4

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Clive Crook

What Me Worry? Markets Face a Rendezvous With Reality

What Me Worry? Markets Face a Rendezvous With Reality
08.07.2025 10

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Clive Crook

The Independent Federal Reserve Is on Death Row

30.06.2025 7

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The US Is About to Discover if Deficits Don’t Matter

It’s hard to think intelligently about public debt and deficits. The economics of fiscal policy is complicated and defies straightforward...

27.05.2025 9

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A Unified Economic Theory of Being a Bully

20.02.2025 10

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The Best Way to Oppose Trump Is Repair, Not Resist

30.01.2025 10

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Joe Biden’s Abiding Legacy Will Be Donald Trump

Who could deny that Joe Biden has been one of America’s most consequential presidents? His signature achievement, after all, was to get Donald Trump...

21.01.2025 7

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Surging Bond Yields Make a Strong Case for Fiscal Sanity

The recent surge in bond yields is directing renewed attention to America’s grim fiscal outlook. The harder you look at those numbers, the more...

14.01.2025 30

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Musk’s DOGE Should Put Government’s ‘Customers’ First

No rational person would take Donald Trump’s promises to be fiscally responsible literally or seriously. His campaign commitments on taxes and...

07.01.2025 5

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Clive Crook

Domino Theory of Norms Spells Doom for US Politics

The habits of liberal democracy are self-sustaining only up to a point. The norms of orderly government have to be practiced to retain wide...

19.12.2024 40

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Clive Crook

The US Can’t Manufacture Its Way to a Thriving Middle Class

The economic-policy consensus that prevails in the US is right about one thing. Over the course of recent decades, industrial dislocation, sluggish...

10.12.2024 5

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Clive Crook

Democrats Are Against Trump. But What Exactly Are They For?

If you think that their second shocking defeat at the hands of Donald Trump – Donald Trump, for heaven’s sake – will lead Democrats to change their...

25.11.2024 4

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Tariffs Don't Help Displaced Workers Like Wage Insurance Does

The new protectionist consensus is wrong about the results of blocking imports – about as wrong (and for roughly the same reasons) as the...

14.10.2024 3

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Trump Offers Voters a Trifecta of Economic Madness

In judging Donald Trump’s policy pronouncements, voters are advised to take the former president “seriously but not literally.” There’s rarely much...

30.09.2024 2

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America’s Fiscal Exceptionalism Is All Too Real

A popular rebuttal of the idea that the US ought to worry about its surging public debt is, “What about Japan?” America’s taxpayers are...

23.09.2024 3

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The US Is Locked in a State of Debt Denial

Perhaps it’s unsurprising that Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are saying nothing about the country’s biggest economic-policy challenge – namely,...

16.09.2024 2

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Harris Should Reflect on What Liberalism Means

The US has rarely seemed as divided by politics. The parties’ leaders and most energetic supporters see their opponents as enemies more than fellow...

28.08.2024 10

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The New Consensus on Trade Is Wrong and Dangerous

One of the most enduring fallacies in politicians’ talk about economics is the idea that trade deficits are a problem in their own right,...

21.08.2024 10

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America’s Debt Crisis Is Getting Too Big to Solve

Fiscal conservatism has more or less vanished from America’s political landscape. Government borrowing, despite the strong economy, continues to...

05.08.2024 3

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Clive Crook

The Gap Between Rising Productivity and Wage Growth Is a Bipartisan Delusion

Progressive Democrats and “national conservative” Republicans are increasingly aligned on the failure of American late-stage capitalism. Real wages...

29.07.2024 8

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Clive Crook