Jeffrey Frankel
PROFESSOR OF CAPITAL FORMATION AND GROWTH AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Are Maga voters rational?
Voter behaviour is often driven by culture and ideology, to the extent of choosing candidates who will not be good for them...
Make America sick again
The Maga movement’s apparent commitment to reversing progress in public health is astounding
Are Trump’s criticisms of Fed policy based on economic conditions?
Uncovering the ‘logic’ behind the US president’s complaints of the central bank’s monetary stance
Foreign aid looks good now that it’s gone
The assistance programmes that the Trump administration has frantically slashed and defunded since January were often life-saving, high-return projects
How to forecast a recession
Imagine you are sailing a ship through dense fog, looking out for land. Your lookout spots species of birds typically found offshore....
Is Trump engineering the decline and fall of the US dollar?
There are fundamental flaws in the US administration’s vision for weakening the greenback
Trump’s imaginary victories
To call the US president a ‘transactional’ leader is to ignore his utter lack of strategic thinking
Can Trump’s tariff threats save US dollar hegemony?
The US president-elect’s reckless rhetoric could undermine his stated objectives
Elon Musk’s US$2 trillion fiscal fantasy
Between Trump’s planned tax cuts and Musk’s absurd estimate of how much federal spending can be reduced, the smart money says they...
What causes prosperity?
How this year’s Nobel Prize-winning economists tackled a once-insoluble problem