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By Harold James - Jul 08,2018
PRINCETON — The European Union is currently facing challenges more severe than even the debt crisis that threatened to sink the eurozone earlier this decade.
By Harold James - Jun 02,2018
PRINCETON — In The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, John Maynard Keynes famously worried that, “Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back”.Yet, even without prescriptive theories
By Harold James - Sep 26,2017
Germany’s election result presents an odd paradox. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is unquestionably the strongest party, and a new government without it is unthinkable.
By Harold James - Sep 12,2017
US President Donald Trump and his advisers’ fierce rhetoric on trade and immigration has led some to wonder if our current era of globalisation is now at risk.If it is, an even more pertinent question is whether the end will be accompanied by violence.Stock markets have become in
By Harold James - Aug 19,2017
It has been 10 years since the financial crisis went international.Until July 2007, the subprime mortgage crisis seemed like it was strictly a problem for the United States.
By Harold James - Jul 22,2017
With global leadership now in question, the G-20’s upcoming summit in Hamburg on July 7-8 could be the group’s tensest meeting ever.
By Harold James - Apr 24,2017
The centrist Emmanuel Macron’s success in the first round of the French presidential election is likely to re-energise Europe.Unlike the other candidates, Macron does not just recognise the need for radical change to the European Union; he supports bringing it through Europe-wide
By Harold James - Apr 05,2017
It has been almost a decade since the 2008 financial crisis, and the confrontational politics that emerged in its aftermath remain ubiquitous in the West.But despite similarities between the United States and the European Union, differences in how they address social, economic an
By Harold James - Feb 18,2017
The past year will be remembered as a period of revolt against what US President Donald Trump likes to call “globalism”.Populist movements have targeted “experts” and “elites” who are now asking themselves what they could have done differently to manage the forces of globalisatio
By Harold James - May 26,2016
Throughout the industrialised world, governments are rushing to hand out money to the elderly.Germany’s government has not only reversed an increase in the retirement age intended to make pensions more affordable; it has recently announced a 5 per cent increase in benefits, the l

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