American hubris
December 9, 2022
The US is addicted to greatness – and haunted by its loss. Great powers, both past and present, are haunted by three interconnected preoccupations: they
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As good as gold: How the dollar has ruled the global economy no matter the crisis at home.
October 13, 2022
The dollar is king. This year the strength of the US currency has humbled the yen, the euro and the pound sterling. US interest rates
The United States Is Fighting Inflation With History
August 27, 2022
Fed chief Jerome Powell wants the world to understand his present decisions are guided by past traumas. At the annual gathering of central bankers and
The World Is Seeing How the Dollar Really Works
August 12, 2022
By raising interest rates, the Federal Reserve strengthened the U.S. currency—and revealed its centrality to global order. 2022 has been a year of dollar power—power
How Much Power Does the Federal Reserve Have?
February 22, 2022
A review of: THE LORDS OF EASY MONEYHow the Federal Reserve Broke the American EconomyBy Christopher Leonard As the U.S. economy bounces back from the
After Biden’s first year, the US economy is surprisingly healthy. His prospects are not
January 20, 2022
Despite victories from Covid to climate change, the president is hamstrung and the nation as divided as ever At the 12-month mark, the obituaries for
The 9/11 Attacks in Historical Perspective, 20 Years Later – Vast Spending With Dubious Returns
September 9, 2021
The global war on terror triggered by 9/11 was a vast undertaking. It took hundreds of thousands of lives, reshaped America’s relations with large parts
The new age of American power
September 9, 2021
Despite forecasts of decline following the Afghanistan withdrawal, the US military is planning another century of global domination. In August 2021, the dismaying scenes at
Opinion: the Fed can, and should, take big steps on climate
July 26, 2021
In the last two years the central banking community has embraced the issue of climate change. That is not to say that central bankers have
Adam Tooze on Climate Politics After COVID
May 21, 2021
Back in autumn 2019, when COVID was still just a twinkle in Satan’s eye, the world was already hurtling toward crisis. The Arctic Sea ice was
Investment and Decarbonization
May 20, 2021
A roundtable discussion with: Anusar Farooqui, Yakov Feygin, Daniela Gabor, Robert Hockett, JW Mason, Saule Omarova, and Tim Sahay, moderated by Adam Tooze.
Green mortgages: Homes need to catch up to climate change
May 13, 2021
When we think of tackling the problem of climate change we might think of smoke-belching power plants, or gas-guzzling trucks, or the guilty pleasure of
A Radical Demonstration of ‘America First’
May 4, 2021
A year into a crisis of world-historic proportions, and what have we learned? After flubbing every aspect of the pandemic response, from masks to contact
How Radical Is President Joe Biden On Climate? With Aaron Bastani on Downstream
April 27, 2021
For some Joe Biden has already exceeded expectations. For others his economic program is nowhere near enough to address the climate crisis and American decline.
How This Crisis Is Different with Odd Lots podcast
April 27, 2021
In 2018, Columbia history professor Adam Tooze published his magisterial work “Crashed”, which framed the Great Financial Crisis as essentially a crisis of the global
America’s race to net zero
April 21, 2021
Does Joe Biden’s climate plan go far enough? On 22-23 April the Biden administration is hosting a global climate summit to mark Earth Day, named
The Gatekeeper
April 16, 2021
Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics and the Fight for a Better Future by Paul Krugman. Norton, 444 pp., £13.99, February, 978 0 393 54132 8 Paul Krugman’s latest collection of essays,
The Green New Deal’s time has come – but what’s happened to Labour’s radicalism?
March 11, 2021
The party risks a dead end with its ‘Little Britain’ thinking, in marked contrast to the bolder path taken by Joe Biden What a difference
Biden’s Stimulus Is the Dawn of a New Economic Era
March 5, 2021
The United States’ massive relief package is more than a technocratic policy. It’s a democratic triumph. There is a lot of debate right now about
Bitcoin: Das neue Gold?
March 3, 2021
Digitale Währungsformen wie die Kryptowährung Bitcoin werden gerade zu Zeiten von Corona immer relevanter. Der Wirtschaftshistoriker Adam Tooze bezweifelt allerdings, dass Bitcoin die Währung der
The Rise and Fall and Rise (and Fall) of the U.S. Financial Empire
January 15, 2021
The dollar is dead. Long live the dollar. If 2020 confirmed one thing, it was the centrality of the dollar to the global economy. U.S. hegemony may
Biden will have the presidency. But Republicans still have the power
November 24, 2020
With a slim majority in Congress, the president-elect lacks a solid base. The past teaches us what may happen. President Trump’s efforts to overturn the
The West’s Constitutional Crises Threaten the Economy’s Last Best Hope
November 21, 2020
Central banks have kept their economies afloat this year—but political dysfunction is pushing them past the breaking point. In the looking-glass moment of November 2020
Das Biden-Team und das Schäuble-Trauma
November 18, 2020
Corona – Das Virus und die Wirtschaft – Folge #35 In den USA bereit sich so ziemlich alles auf einen Präsident Biden vor – mit
Post-Covid Economics with the Talking Politics Podcast
November 18, 2020
This week a special edition from the Bristol Festival of Economics with Helen Thompson and Adam Tooze talking about what might follow the pandemic. From vaccines to changing patterns
Discussion with Wolfgang Schäuble
November 12, 2020
Wie weiter am Ende des amerikanischen Jahrhunderts? Europa und die Welt am Scheideweg zweier Epochen Wenige Tage nach der US-Präsidentschaftswahl diskutieren Bundestagspräsident Wolfgang Schäuble und
The Limits of Victory
November 9, 2020
Joe Biden may have won the election, but the U.S. is still divided and the Republicans are ready to block his every move, even as
America’s Economy Is Fragile. So Is Biden’s Economic Team.
November 9, 2020
As the transition to the next administration under Joe Biden begins, several lists of potential economics team members are already in circulation. Longtime Biden advisors
Make America Normal Again? With Aaron Bastani at Novara Media
November 7, 2020
Joe Biden is President-elect of the United States. But what might his Presidency mean for working class Americans, US foreign policy and perceived national decline?
Trump has not been repudiated – a Biden presidency would face obstruction at every level
November 5, 2020
With progress blocked, the US election could entrench the poisonous status quo Whatever else emerges from the US’s 2020 election, one thing is clear: it
Welcome to the Worst Election Outcome for the Global Economy
November 4, 2020
As of early morning, Nov. 4, the presidential betting market is back where it was 24 hours ago. As was true before the polls closed
Four more years?
November 4, 2020
das Virus und die Wirtschaft – Folge #33 Man dachte, sein Management der Coronakrise habe den US Präsidenten seinen Rückhalt in der Bevölkerung gekostet. Auch
The Markets Want Much More Than Just a Biden Win
November 3, 2020
As we await the outcome of the U.S. election, the world economy drifts listlessly, paralyzed by the shock of COVID-19 and geopolitical and political uncertainty.
The political economy of Trump
November 3, 2020
The United States can protect itself against turbulence, but doing so against a great recession is a lot more difficult, and that is the danger
Whatever happens, it will take more than promises to Make America Normal Again
November 1, 2020
The forces Trump represents and the fragility of the country’s electoral machinery are problems decades in the making. As we approach 3 November, it seems
Is capital finally losing faith in Trump?
October 22, 2020
What has kept Donald Trump in the presidential race is his electoral base. It consists of white men, rural and small-town voters and small-business owners.
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