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
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
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
Corona – Das Virus und die Wirtschaft – Folge #35 In den USA bereit sich so ziemlich alles auf einen Präsident Biden vor – mit
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
das Virus und die Wirtschaft – Folge #33 Man dachte, sein Management der Coronakrise habe den US Präsidenten seinen Rückhalt in der Bevölkerung gekostet. Auch
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 United States can protect itself against turbulence, but doing so against a great recession is a lot more difficult, and that is the danger
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
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.
Der New Yorker Wirtschaftshistoriker Adam Tooze wird ab jetzt im Wechsel mit Marcel Fratzscher (DIW, Berlin) mit Wirtschaftsredakteur Eric Graydon über die ökonomischen Auswirkungen der
In a little-noticed speech this week, China permanently changed the global fight against climate change. China will scale up its Intended Nationally Determined Contributions by
What Eric Hobsbawm called the ‘short 20th century’ is supposed to have ended in 1989 with the United States winning the Cold War. Yet today
This is the first great crisis of the post-American world,” former Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt tweeted on Wednesday. “The UN Security Council is nowhere
In trying to gauge the coronavirus crisis, we are all struggling for historical reference points. Which is the historical example to choose? The turmoil in
The climate emergency is stirring radical politics across the world. Most notably, the left wings of both the Democratic Party in the United States and
For the American right, Donald Trump’s inauguration as the forty-fifth president of the United States was a moment of political rebirth. Elements of American conservatism
“Versailles and the Interwar Crisis: The Problem of Hegemony Revisited” at the opening of The Paris Centennial Conference. The Paris Centennial Conference, from May 23-26,
The history of American power, as it is commonly written, is a weighty subject, a matter of military and economic heft, of ‘throw-weight’, of resource
Speaking on Crashed at the Washington History Seminar, a production by the National History Center in cooperation with the Woodrow Wilson Center’s History and Public
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