With U.S.-China tensions exacerbating the climate crisis, a new category of great power rivalry is emerging — not a Cold War but a Warming War.
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Jay Powell wants us to believe he has what it takes to bring inflation under control. History warns us to be skeptical.
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The Cold War statesman on Putin, China and our new moment of peril
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The Chinese Communist Party will crack down rather than risk losing control.
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Joe Biden's grand strategy is setting the US and Beijing on a collision course. It's bad foreign policy and terrible domestic politics.
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The world doesn’t move in cycles or with a grand design. Echoes of the 1970s remind us that one disaster often begets others.
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‘The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.’
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Our predictions about the law’s effects on business investment, wages and tax revenue were correct.
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The French still enjoy a comparably solid social safety net. Looking closely at Emmanuel Macron's victory, it was this welfare state that helped him get reelected. And it makes the upcoming pension reform all the more challenging.
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The disruptions of Covid and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have shown the strength of the Western system and the weakness of China’s.
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To fight the pandemic, the Chinese Communist Party leader mobilizes forces he will likely find difficult to control.
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Beijing oversold its surveillance-based system of disease control and underestimated the shape-shifting virus. The result is an economic mess — though probably not a political crisis.
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