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Foreign Affairs November/December 2022
After Neoliberalism

10.29.23 – Washington Monthly
The Great Reordering


2023-2024

4.28.24
The Crippling Home Insurance Crisis Hitting America

4.22.24
The White House Knows That The Global South Has A Point

4.14.24
Gold Is Back– And It Has A Message For Us

4.7.24
The Great American Transport Crisis Tells Us Something

3.31.24
China’s Hypocrisy On Trade

3.24.24
Beware AI Euphoria

3.17.24
America (Still) Has No Industrial Policy

3.10.24
To Surge Or Not To Surge, The Algorithm Is The Question

3.3.24
What Super Tuesday Tells US About The Economy Of The Mind

2.25.24
The Global Trade System Is In Desperate Need Of An Overhaul

2.18.24
Europe Must Ask: What If Biden Wins In November?

2.11.24
America Now Has A High-Pressure Economy

2.4.24
The Great US-Europe Antitrust Divide

1.28.24
The Financial System Needs More Capital and Less Complexity

1.14.24
Business Is Starting To Think More About ROI Than DEI

1.14.24
America Needs Straight Talk On Trade

1.7.24
Content Creators Fight Back Against AI

1.1.24
America’s Childcare System is Broken

12.17.23
The Economic Year Ahead Will Not Be Binary

12.11.23
Tax Justice Is Yet To Hit The Richest ‘Citizens Of The World’

12.3.23
US CEOs Start To Contemplate Trump, Round 2

11.19.23
Behold The Ozempic Effect on Business

11.12.23
Small Packages Are Causing Big Problems In The US

11.5.23
We Must Stop AI Replicating the Problems of Surveillance Capitalism

10.30.23
How To Make Free Trade Fairer

10.22.23
Big Companies Defy Expectations To Become Even Bigger

10.20.22 – FT Weekend
My Guide to a Globalising World

10.15.23
Housing Remains America’s Biggest Supply Chain Problem

10.9.23
US Antitrust Has Reached A Turning Point

10.1.23
Workers Could Be The Ones To Regulate AI

9.24.23
Models Can Mislead Us On The Impact Of Global Trade

9.17.23
The Stakes of the US Autoworker Strike Could Not Be Higher

9.12.23
America’s New Right is Moving Beyond Reaganism

8.13.23
The U.S.–China Decoupling Story Is Not Over

8.6.23
Inconvenient Truths About the Green Transition

7.30.23
Hollywood’s Fight is Your Fight

7.23.23
Barbie is a Rare Winner in the Corporate Culture Wars

7.16.23
There’s a Silver Lining for Students in the US Supreme Court Rulings

6.18.23
America is Telling a Very Different Story About Trade

6.12.23
What To Do When the US Becomes Uninsurable

6.5.23
What the Debt Ceiling Debate Missed

5.21.23
A US Foreign Policy For the Middle Class

5.19.23
Lunch With the FT: Economist Daron Acemoglu

5.14.23
US Cities Must Beware the ‘Doughnut Effect’

5.7.23
The Problem With Concentrated Power

4.30.23
China, America, and Why Not All Growth is Equal

4.23.23
Can Apple Really Help Fix Banking?

4.16.23
Immigration is Back in the US

4.9.23
If Tech is Driving the ‘Productivity Bandwagon,’ It’s Time to Hit the Brakes

4.2.23
Shadow Banks Could Yet Cause Trouble

3.26.23
A New Technology Boom is at Hand

3.19.23
We Need to Create Guardrails for AI

3.13.23
The Rare Earths Race Entails Difficult Choices

3.5.23
America is Toppling the EU From its Regulatory Throne

2.26.23
America’s Chip Moonshot Should Take Aim at its Education System

2.19.23
The Rise of Kitchen Table Economics

2.12.23
China and America are Locked in Destructive Codependence

2.5.23
Letting the Public Decide is Key to Big Tech Regulation

1.29.23
The Real Cost of Shadow Work

1.22.23
Luxury Boom Shows the Staying Power of the Ultra-Rich

1.15.23
CEOs Beware: Cost-Cutting Isn’t the Same as Growth

1.8.23
Hyper-Efficiency is Bad Business

1.2.23
A New World Energy Order is Taking Shape

2022

12.27.22
The New Space Race Could Turn Science Fiction Into Reality

12.11.22
Decoupling Spells an End to Corporate Opacity

12.4.22
’Wage Inflation? What Wage Inflation?’ Ask Workers

11.27.22
Digital Trade Must Not Become a Zero-Sum Game

11.20.22
Crypto: New Asset, Old Problem

11.13.22
Democrats Will Have to Balance Rhetoric and Reality Post-Midterms

11.6.22
Corporations Can No Longer Remain Black Boxes

10.30.22
We Must Prepare for the Reality of the Chip Wars

10.9.22
The New Rules for Business in a Post-Neoliberal World

10.2.22
Investors Are Learning to Love Industry Again

9.25.22
The Financial System is Still Dealing With the Fallout From 2008

9.18.22
America Needs a Proper Risk Strategy For Its Relations With China

9.11.22
Who Will Pay For the Shift From Efficiency to Resilience?

9.4.22
A Deglobalising World Will Be An Inflationary One

8.28.22
Everyone Pays the Cost As the Rich Keep Spending

8.8.22
Bad News for Big Tech

8.1.22
Biden’s Surprise Win Will Bring Economic As Well As Political Benefits

7.11.22
Is The US Starting To Resemble An Emerging Market?

7.3.22
America Needs To Get Women
Back Into Work

6.26.22
The High Cost Of Producing Cheap Food

6.19.22
When Trying To Predict Inflation In The US, Remember The Wild Cards

6.12.22
America Must Do More In The Trade Tug Of War

6.5.22
The Cost Of Complexity In Supply Chains

5.29.22
Talk of Doing Good Rings Hollow
Among Global Elite

5.12.22
Davos and The New Era of Deglobalisation

5.15.22
Let the Fed Put Money
Where it is Really Needed

5.8.22
The World Needs a 12-step
Programme for Better Trade

5.5.22
Are Soaring us Property Prices
Here to Stay?

5.1.22
The Failures of Stakeholder Capitalism

4.24.22
The Threat of a Global ‘buying strike’ Rises as Cost of Living hits

4.17.22
It’s Time For A New Bretton Woods

4.10.22
Pursuit of Profit Bodes
Ill For Us Healthcare

3.27.22
Fertiliser Inflation Presages A
Global Food Supply Crisis

3.21.22
How War Is Changing Business

3.13.22
We Need a Grand Bargain On Energy

3.6.22
Ukraine Reveals Nature Of War In The Age Of Weaponised Networks

2.27.22
China, Russia, and The Race
To A Post-Dollar world

2.20.22.
It’s Not Just The Economy, Stupid

2.14.22
The SEC Has Shone A Welcome Light On Financial Darkness

2.7.22
US Trade Needs A Radical Redesign

1.30.22
Automation Exacts A Toll In Inequality

1.24.22
The FED Needs Diversity Of Thought

1.16.22
What Biden’s Competition Crusade Tells Us About Globalisation

1.10.22
WHEN THE WEB3 BUBBLE POPS, REAL WORLD ASSETS WILL SURVIVE

1.2.22
WHY WE SHOULD EXPECT WOBBLING IN GLOBAL INFLATION DYNAMICS

2021

12.19.21
The Lessons For The US From China’s ‘Common Prosperity’ Push

12.12.21
Big Tech Is Playing A Financial Shell Game

12.5.21
Life At The Top Gets Harder For Chief Executives

11.21.21
Key US Commission Heralds Coming Capital Wars

11.14.21
The Oldest Asset Class Of All Still Dominates Modern Wealth

11.7.21
Why Innovation Could Stop Inflation

10.24.21
Joe Biden’s Bid For Banks
That Serve The People


10.17.21
Supply Chain Lessons From Long Beach

10.10.21
Cheap masks carry a high cost for us manufacturing

10.3.21
The left’s low-rate fantasy makes inequality worse

9.26.21
The US and EU Should Talk About Competition

9.19.21
Forget The ‘She-Cession’ – Women Will Redefine The Labour Market

9.12.2
tHE US NEEDS TO MAKE HOMES MORE AFFORDABLE – AND AVAILABLE

8.1.21
biden puts workers ahead of consumers

7.25.21
Trading apps reduce markets to a game

7.18.21
post-pandemic inflation fears are overblown

7.11.21
spacs are falling short of their promises

7.5.21
what joe biden can learn from richard nixon’s playbook

6.27.21
America And The EU Are Stronger Together

6.21.21
Capital For The People–An Idea Whose Time Has Come

6.15.21
Storms Await Companies That Err On Climate

6.7.21
Politicians Should Set Common Rules For Digital Markets

5.30.21
Five Lessons From 25 Years of Corporate Wealth Creation

5.23.21
Wanted: A Resiliency Tsar For The US Government

5.17.21
A Midlife Crisis Takes Shape In The US

5.10.21
Creative Destruction is the Silver Lining

5.3.21
Joe biden’s battles have just begun

4.26.21
There’s No Place Like Home

4.18.21
The US Infrastructure Most In Need Of Investment Is Human

4.11.21
Why Manufacturing Matters To Economic Superpowers

3.7.21
Wishful Thinking On China Will Not Serve American Interests

2.28.21
Liberals and security hawks can find common green ground

2.21.21
Silicon beach, or just another warm tax haven?

2.14.21
bitcoin’s rise reflects america’s decline

2.7.21
The biggest lesson of gamestop

1.31.21
Joe Biden’s ‘buy american’ isn’t bad, it’s necessary

1.24.21
Joe Biden and The ‘Great rebalancing’ of the us economy

1.17.21
Wall Street’s New Sheriff Is On A Mission

1.10.21
Why Investors Shrugged Off The Capitol Riots

2020

12.20.20
A Student Debt Jubilee Could Kickstart US Economic Recovery

12.13.20
The Federal Trade Commission Strikes Back Against Facebook

12.6.20
A Transatlantic Effort To Take On Big Tech

11.22.20
Corporate America’s Deal With The Devil

11.15.20
America’s Other Identity Divide-class

11.9.20
Joe Biden Can Get Plenty Done

11.1.20
A Blueprint for America’s Economic Recovery

10.26.20
Big Tech Collaborates To Conquer

10.18.20
Joe Biden Needs An Economic Team That Will Support Workers

10.11.20
Strawberries Tell The Story Of An Era Of Disruption

10.4.20
Covid recovery will stem from digital business

9.27.20
Concentrated Power In Big Tech Harms The US

9.20.20
How To Survive The Covid-19 Retail Apocalypse

9.13.20
The Next Subprime Crisis Could Be In Food

9.6.20
China Wants To Decouple From US Tech, Too

8.9.20
The Great Trade Unwinding

8.2.20
Tourism’s Collapse Could Trigger Next Stage of Crisis

7.26.20
Antitrust Is Changing From The Ground Up

7.18.20
Europe and Us Can Still Compete With Chinese Tech

7.5.20
Ad Boycotts Alone Will Not Curb Big Tech

6.28.20
A Canary In the US Economic Coal Mine

6.21.20
The Problem With Big Food

6.14.20
Black Lives Matters is About Both Race and Class

6.7.20
Facebook and The Creation Of A US Oligarch

5.31.20
We May Be Heading Towards A Post-Dollar World

5.24.20
Small-time Investing Fuels Real World Consequences

5.17.20
Big Tech’s Viral boom Could be its undoing

5.10.20
Gambling on us equities is becoming more difficult

5.3.20
Economists need to abandon their comfort zones to deal with covid-19

4.26.20
Coronavirus bursts the US college education bubble

4.19.20
We are entering the new age of american austerity

4.12.20
WeWork’s lessons for US real estate

4.5.20
The US needs a broadband big dig

3.29.20
Fifty years of US Policy come home to roost

3.22.20
This time, small guys should get the bailouts

3.15.20
How Coronavirus became a corporate credit run

3.8.20
US Economy is dangerously dependent on Wall Street

3.1.20
Corporate Margins are going to be squeezed

2.23.20
Coronavirus Is Speeding Up The Decoupling Of global economies

2.16.20
Digital Tools Can Be A Useful Bolster To Democracy

2.9.20
America’s Go-It-Alone Economy

2.2.20
Coronavirus Will Hit Global Growth

1.26.20
A Plot Twist In Donald Trump’s US Growth Story

1.19.20
Tech Innovation Needs A
Level Playing Field

1.12.20
Commodities May Not Stay
Cheap Forever

2019

12.29.19 Financial Times
A Productive Economic Bubble Is My Wish For 2020

12.22.19 Financial Times
America’s Competitiveness Problem

12.16.19 Financial Times
Martin Guzman Shows A Better Way to Deal With Debt Crises

12.8.19 Financial Times
How To Take Back Control From The Big Tech Barons

12.1.19 Financial Times
Consciously Decoupling The US Economy

11.24.19 Financial Times
Gold Is Looking More and More Attractive

11.17.19 Financial Times
Our Personal Data Needs Protecting from Big Tech

11.10.19 Financial Times
Healthcare Policy Is A Defining Issue For America

11.3.19 Financial Times
Big Tech Has Moved From Offering Utopia to Selling Dystopia

10.27.19 Financial Times
Fact-checking Facebook’s Fantasies

10.20.19 Financial Times
Europeans Have Double Standards On Transatlantic Trade

10.18.19 Financial Times
I Joined A Tech Start-up In 1998.

10.13.19 Financial Times
California’s New Model For Fixing Inequality

10.6.19 Financial Times
Luxury Real Estate Has A Long Way To Fall

9.29.19 Financial Times
Are Investors Ready for the ‘doomsday dollar’ scenario?

9.22.19 Financial Times
Organized Labor has returned

9.15.19 Financial Times
TakeDown by Elliott’s Paul Singer of At&t is on the money

9.8.19 Financial Times
Corporate America Is Over-caffeinated

8.21.19 Financial Times
The trouble with American tourism

8.18.19 Financial Times
Markets are adjusting to a turbulent world

8.14.19 Financial Times
Why management by numbers doesn’t add up

8.4.19
The age of wealth accumulation is over

7.29.19 Financial Times
Facebook’s Libra and the scourge of hot money

8.7.19 Financial Times
The fracturing of the global economic consensus

7.30.19 Financial Times
The silver lining for labour markets

7.23.19 Financial Times
A long economic recovery is not necessarily a better one

7.16.19 Financial Times
Big Tech is America’s new ‘railroad problem’ 

6.9.19 Financial Times
Plans for a worker led economy straddle America’s political divides

6.2.19 Financial Times
Old economists can teach us new tricks 

5.26.19 Financial Times
Government contracts become Amazon’s new target market

5.19.19 Financial Times
US private equity moves into trailer parks

5.12.19 Financial Times
Democrats take aim at big agribusiness

4.21.19 Financial Times
The global race for 5G supremacy is not yet won

4.14.19 | Financial Times
What Donald Trump gets right about the US economy

4.7.19 Financial Times
Big tech must pay for access to America’s ‘digital oil’

3.31.19 Financial Times
It is time for a truly free market

3.24.19 Financial Times
National champions are not the way to compete with China

3.17.19 Financial Times
The Fed has exacerbated America’s new housing bubble

3.10.19 Financial Times
Do not let internal battles slow the fight against climate change

3.3.19 Financial Times
The allure of financial tricks is fading

2.24.19
California leads the way on data regulation

2.20.19
Is made in the USA making a comeback?

2.17.19
Donald Trump’s ill-timed rift with Europe

2.10.19
US-China conflict echoes Europe’s past

2.4.19
America’s new antitrust agenda

1.27.19
Another tech bubble could be about to burst 

1.20.19
China’s Xi Jinping is No Davos

2018

12.30.18 Financial Times
Regional US Central Bankers Turn Their Focus To Main Street

12.23.18 Financial Times
Facebook Has Put Growth Ahead Of Governance For Too Long

12.16.18 Financial Times
Year In A Word: Techlash

12.2.18 Financial Times
Tech Companies Tinker Under The Hood Of The Automobile Industry 

11.25.18 Financial Times
US Capital Expenditure Boom Fails To Live Up To Promises

11.18.18 Financial Times
Facebook Puts Profits Above Care For Liberal Democracy

11.11.18 Financial Times
Young Americans need to be taught skills, not handed credentials

11.04.18 Financial Times
These Midterms Mark A Culture Shift For Business and Politics 

10.28.18 Financial Times
Big Tech’s Unhealthy Obsession With Hyper-Targeted Ads

10.22.18 Financial Times
Superstar companies are ripe for disruption

10.14.18 Financial Times
‘Patriotic Capitalism’

10.7.18 Financial Times
Dark clouds gather over the
US housing market
 

9.23.18 Financial Times
Revamp global trade to
match our new reality

9.23.18 Financial Times
US trade hawks seize their chance to reset China relations

9.16.18 Financial Times
Banks jump on to the fintech bandwagon

9.9.18 Financial Times
Why the US Federal Reserve should care about finance

9.2.18 Financial Times
Amazon’s pricing tactic is a trap for buyers and sellers alike

9.19.18 Financial Times
Platform companies have to learn to share

8.12.18 Financial Times
New investment rules will squeeze US-China flows

7.29.18 | Financial Times
Business should listen to America’s new left

7.22.18 Financial Times
A light shines on the concentration of power in Silicon Valley 

7.15.18 Financial Times
Globalised business is a US security issue 

7.9.18 Financial Times
Culture clashes loom after a rush of company mergers 

7.1.18 Financial Times
US and China must find ways to control their elites

6.24.18 Financial Times
Antitrust policy is ripe for a rethink

6.17.18 Financial Times
Donald Trump’s trade tirades show his mastery of the message

6.10.18 Financial Times
Trump Is Trading On A
Protectionist Mood

6.3.18 Financial Times
Donald Trump Picks
The Wrong Trade Fight

5.27.18 Financial Times
Companies Are The Cops In Our Modern-Day Dystopia

5.20.18 Financial Times
The Wrong Time To Roll
Back Financial Reform

5.14.18 Financial Times
‘Techlash’- How Big Tech Is Influencing Your Thinking

5.13.18 Financial Times
Keep An Eye On Apple If You Want To Spot Market Trends

5.6.18 Financial Times
Fight The Faangs, Not China

4.29.18 Financial Times
A Business Answer To America’s Broken Education System 

4.22.18 | Financial Times
Regulating Facebook Merely Nips At The Edge Of A Bigger Problem 

4.1.18 Financial Times
Columbus Shows Trump How To Thrive In New World Order

3.25.18 Financial Times
Investors should bet on smaller nimbler companies and countries 

3.18.18 Financial Times
Why Mergers Between Old-Media Titans Do Not Matter 

3.11.18 Financial Times
Beware A Digital Trade War 

3.4.18 | Financial Times
The Backlash Against Shareholder Value 

2.25.18 Financial Times
Three Questions For Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell 

2.18.18 Financial Times
Why Workers Need A ‘Digital New Deal’ To Protect Against AI 

2.11.18 Financial Times
Tech Companies Are The New Investment Banks 

2.4.18 Financial Times
The American Way Of Healthcare 

1.28.18 Financial Times
The Dangers Of Digital Democracy

1.21.18 Financial Times
Big Tech Should Hit The Reset Button

1.14.18 Financial Times
The Rise Of The Superstar Company 

1.7.18 Financial Times
Three Trends To Move Markets in 2018