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J. Bradford Delong

J. Bradford Delong

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Misinformation Decided the US Election

BERKELEY – Three days after Donald Trump’s victory in this year’s US presidential election, my friend Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and...

11.11.2024 90

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Enjoy the Soft Landing

BERKELEY – The COVID-19 pandemic created both a short- and a medium-term challenge for American economic policy. The immediate challenge was to...

09.10.2024 50

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America Has No Alternative to Industrial Policy

BERKELEY – By the end of the 1970s, the US economy appeared to be in serious trouble. Years of inflation had caused deep discontent; measured...

05.09.2024 40

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Patriotic Grift

BERKELEY – US President Joe Biden has declined the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. He has done so despite being “the best president...

24.07.2024 20

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How Humanity Lost Control

BERKELEY – How can we be at least 15 times richer than our pre-industrial Agrarian Age predecessors, and yet so unhappy? One explanation is that we...

02.07.2024 20

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The Threat of Trumpflation and a Fed War

BERKELEY – Inflation in the United States is lower than it was a year ago, and substantial economic weakness elsewhere is driving other central...

22.05.2024 40

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Musk Has Made Tesla a Meme Stock

BERKELEY – From the standpoint of America and the world, Tesla is a historically important technology-generating enterprise – the tip of the spear...

01.05.2024 40

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The Mystery of US Interest Rates

BERKELEY – In the United States, the long-term real safe interest rate – the inflation-adjusted return on low-risk investments such as Treasuries...

14.03.2024 50

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What Is the Fed Thinking?

BERKELEY – At its monthly meeting on January 31, the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee held firm on interest rates. “The Committee...

05.02.2024 40

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The Fed’s Remarkable Feat

BERKELEY – Monetary-policy watchers are currently divided into two groups. But perhaps both sides should pause and reflect on where we were 18...

22.12.2023 30

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