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Is Germany Without Its Debt Brake on the Right Track?

What will be the end result of a huge European debt expansion led by a Germany? More than two dozen distinguished thinkers offer their views.

Featuring commentary by Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Josef Braml, Lorenzo Codogno, Jacques de Larosière, Tobias Edelstein, Heiner Flassbeck, Joseph E. Gagnon, James K. Galbraith, Michael Hüther, Otmar Issing, Francis J. Kelly, Moritz Kraemer, Desmond Lachman, Philippe Legrain, Thomas Mayer, Thomas Mirow, Piroska Nagy Mohácsi, Ewald Nowotny, Jim O’Neill, Peter R. Orszag, Holger Schmieding, Neil Shearing, Mark Sobel, Christopher Whalen, Chen Zhao, and Klaus F. Zimmermann.

The Dollar’s Future

TIE executive editor Owen Ullmann talks to noted economic journalist Paul Blustein about his timely new book, King Dollar: The Past and Future of the World’s Dominant Currency. An exclusive interview.

Time for Globalization 2.0?

This time without the mistakes?

By Robert D. Atkinson

Regrets of the Tech Bros

In a land ruled by the law of the jungle.

By Susan Ariel Aaronson and Michael Moreno

America Is Becoming the World’s Largest Tax Haven

Modeled after the lawless zones of the offshore world.

By Joseph E. Stiglitz

Donald Trump Meets the Paris Accords

How a trade war-induced economic collapse could improve the climate.

By Philip K. Verleger, Jr.

Rolling Back Mission Creep

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s take on the Bretton Woods institutions.

By Scott Bessent

Trump’s Misguided Plan to Weaken the Dollar

A flawed diagnosis.

By Kenneth Rogoff

Shock Treatment

The actions of a great man.

By R. Christopher Whalen

Something Had to Happen

A view of recent times.

By Bernard Connolly

Off the News

Berlin’s Fed/gold nightmare, and the nightmare of the world’s dominant currency.

View from the Beltway

DJT: Call Your Office! A debt disaster could be sneaking up on you.

By Owen Ullmann

Letter from Berlin

Bundestag Bombshell: “We are back on track,” claims new chancellor Friedrich Merz.

By Klaus C. Engelen