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Andres Velasco

THE WRITER, A FORMER FINANCE MINISTER OF CHILE, IS DEAN OF THE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY AT THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

The European Union is supposed to be a fully unified market for trade in all goods and services, but the truth is that many barriers remain.

Why is Europe so wimpy?

To serve as a lender of last resort, the Fed must make an ironclad commitment that it will not inflate away the value of the debt – and Trump is doing his best to erode the credibility of that promise.

The world’s newest emerging market

An empty bar in Santiago, Chile. The Chilean economy, once the wonder of Latin America, has barely been growing in recent years, and the investment boom of the 1990s and 2000s is long past.

THE BROAD VIEW

Chile’s unhappy success

At the end of 2024, foreigners held nearly US$8.6 trillion in US federal debt.

Who benefits from a global dollar?

To give populists like Trump a run for their money, liberals need to speak in moral terms and connect with most voters' moral intuitions.

THE BROAD VIEW

How liberals lost America

FILE PHOTO: A woman passes by the Bitcoin Monument after bitcoin soared above $100,000, in Ilopango, El Salvador, December 5, 2024. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas/File Photo

PERSPECTIVE

Crypto’s unholy choir

Populists such as Trump appeal to voters’ deep-seated values and sensibilities by connecting to people’s identities, and by understanding much better than liberals the tribal nature of contemporary politics.

How not to react to Donald Trump

Argentina’s libertarian president Javier Milei told the General Assembly that instead of the UN’s “supranational programme of a socialist nature”, the world needs a “freedom agenda”.

THE BROAD VIEW

Who needs a new economic paradigm?

Newly elected British MPs in the House of Commons Chamber on Jul 9.

In praise of first-past-the-post

The decline of left-behind towns in the American Midwest or the North of England threatens people's sense of national and community identity.

THE BROAD VIEW

The promise of centrism in a polarised world

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