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Boiling America's economy
By Anne O. Krueger - Oct 08,2024
 WASHINGTON, DC — It is said that if you put a frog in boiling water, it immediately jumps out; but if you put it in cold water and gradually turn up the heat, it does not react, and is eventually boiled to death.
America needs more immigration
By Anne O. Krueger - Apr 28,2024
WASHINGTON, DC — With an unprecedented number of migrants and asylum seekers trying to enter the United States through its southern border, immigration is at the top of American voters’ minds ahead of November’s presidential election.
America's steel madness
By Anne O. Krueger - Feb 18,2024
WASHINGTON, DC — Late last year, Japan’s Nippon Steel announced that it had reached a deal to acquire US Steel Corporation for $14.1 billion, a move that would make it the world’s second-largest steel producer by capacity.
The coming debt crisis
By Anne O. Krueger - Dec 20,2023
WASHINGTON, DC — In its latest World Economic Outlook, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reported that a rising share of countries, 56 per cent of low-income countries and 25 per cent of emerging markets, are “in or at high levels of debt distress”.
The great debt conundrum
By Anne O. Krueger - Sep 30,2023
WASHINGTON, DC — The exponential growth of international capital flows, predominantly in the form of debt, has been one of the great development successes of the past 50 years.
From trade war to subsidy war
By Anne O. Krueger - Aug 16,2023
LONDON — To the dismay of many economists, US President Joe Biden’s administration has retained most of its predecessor’s tariffs and trade barriers.
Why is America undercutting Japan?
By Anne O. Krueger - Jul 24,2023
TOKYO — Until 2017, America’s trade policies were reasonably well aligned with its strategic objectives.
A world of debt
By Anne O. Krueger - May 24,2023
WASHINGTON, DC — Recent headlines seem to augur a global debt crisis. The United States is teetering on the precipice of a self-inflicted default. Egypt, Ghana, Pakistan, and many other countries are in grave financial difficulties.
Breaking the debt-relief paralysis
By Anne O. Krueger - Apr 20,2023
WASHINGTON, DC — When Sri Lanka’s economic crisis burst into international headlines a year ago, it had already been worsening for many months. Critical fuel shortages prevented people from going to work, and consumer goods could not be distributed.
America's industrial policy is counterproductive
By Anne O. Krueger - Mar 23,2023
WASHINGTON, DC — Last year’s US CHIPS and Science Act created large subsidies for investments in domestic semiconductor fabrication facilities (fabs), on the grounds that microchips are essential both to the US economy and to national security.

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