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The Euro at 20
By Jean Pisani-Ferry - Dec 28,2021
PARIS — Twenty years ago, on January 1, 2002, citizens of 12 European countries began using new euro banknotes and coins.
The geopolitical conquest of economics
By Jean Pisani-Ferry - Oct 04,2021
PARIS — From the Huawei affair to the AUKUS spat and beyond, a new reality is shaking up the global economy: the takeover, usually hostile, of international economics by geopolitics.
Mario Draghi’s second ‘whatever it takes’
By Jean Pisani-Ferry - Aug 01,2021
PARIS — To be the prime minister of Italy is to hold one of the world’s worst jobs. To paraphrase the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, life in this post is usually nasty, brutish and short.
Is Bidenomics more than catch-up?
By Jean Pisani-Ferry - May 31,2021
PARIS — “Let us think big,” exhorted US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen in May. “Let’s build something that lasts for generations.”Such is the transformative rhetoric behind President Joe Biden’s economic-policy agenda.
Europe needs a new fiscal framework
By Jean Pisani-Ferry - May 04,2021
PARIS — In the mid-1980s, only seven countries had fiscal rules. In 2015, when the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last counted, 96 did.
Europe’s recovery gamble
By Jean Pisani-Ferry - Sep 28,2020
 PARIS — To help their pandemic-hit economies recover, European Union leaders agreed in July to borrow 750 billion euros ($876 billion) to finance 390 billion euros in grants and 360 billion euros in loans to the bloc’s member states.
The challenges of the post-pandemic agenda
By Jean Pisani-Ferry - Jul 27,2020
PARIS — There is a growing possibility that the COVID-19 crisis will mark the end of the growth model born four decades ago with the Reagan-Thatcher revolution, China’s embrace of capitalism, and the demise of the Soviet Union.
Explaining the triumph of Trump’s economic recklessness
By Jean Pisani-Ferry - Jan 29,2020
PARIS — Since he was elected US president, Donald Trump has done almost everything standard economic wisdom regards as heresy. He has erected trade barriers and stoked uncertainty with threats of further tariffs. He has blackmailed private businesses.
The great wealth tax debate
By Jean Pisani-Ferry - Nov 02,2019
WASHINGTON, DC — In 1990, 12 advanced economies had a tax on household wealth. Now only four do, after French President Emmanuel Macron scrapped his country’s version in 2017.
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