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Megan Greene

QE has become ‘Hotel California’ for central banks

While commercial lenders change behaviour when the balance sheet expands, they do not change it back when it shrinks

Monday, 9 January, 2023

Federal Reserve

Central banks can’t win when it comes to credibility on inflation

Institutions are scrambling to rebuild their toolkits to deal with the new regime

Friday, 26 August, 2022

Central banks

Stop berating central banks and let them tackle inflation

Despite their slow reaction, now is not the time for a radical redesign of their mandates

Friday, 6 May, 2022

Global Economy

We need to revitalise the world economy in inclusive ways

It is hard but necessary for governments to reverse the trend towards deglobalisation

Tuesday, 2 November, 2021

Climate change

Reducing global emissions can be simple and self-financing

The world needs a plan that supplants fuzzy commitments with real penalties for the big polluters

Wednesday, 21 July, 2021

Coronavirus economic impact

A lopsided recovery from the pandemic bodes ill for emerging economies

Advanced industrial countries can and should take measures to spur investment and growth around the globe

Sunday, 4 April, 2021

Coronavirus economic impact

A riot of US spending spells trouble for future generations

Useful infrastructure investment makes better sense than badly designed handouts

Monday, 21 December, 2020

Coronavirus

State support for Covid-hit companies has to change

The blanket help governments first provided needs to be better targeted and private expertise brought in

Thursday, 15 October, 2020

Economists Exchange

Raghuram Rajan: ‘Society has to find a new equilibrium’

In the first of a series, the former Indian central banker explains why the solution to economic adversity is to strengthen local communities

Tuesday, 7 July, 2020

Coronavirus economic impact

Pursue self-interest by helping other economies too

Industrialised Europe and Asia have contained the virus but elsewhere prospects are bleaker

Friday, 22 May, 2020

Life & Arts

The first thing I’ll do after lockdown is...

Sailing the Med? Watching Arsenal? A hug? Christine Lagarde, Yuval Noah Harari, Carlo Rovelli and many more on their post-lockdown dream

Tuesday, 12 May, 2020

Global Economy

Business cannot simply awake from this coma and carry on

It made sense to support everyone when the coronavirus crisis first hit but now hard choices are needed

Friday, 20 March, 2020

Coronavirus

Rich countries cannot win the war against coronavirus alone

We need to fight this pandemic into submission everywhere in order to relax measures anywhere

Tuesday, 25 February, 2020

Global inequality

Thomas Piketty’s ‘Capital and Ideology’: scholarship without solutions

The French economist’s data-driven analysis of inequality offers a flawed prospectus for change

Tuesday, 17 December, 2019

Climate change

A fair and simple way to tax carbon emissions

Rich countries that pump out more than average should pay into a fund that rewards low emitters

Wednesday, 21 August, 2019

Monetary policy

Central bankers seek fresh policy tools to combat slowdown

Record-low rates trigger hunt for stimulus measures at Jackson Hole gathering

Tuesday, 30 April, 2019

Urban planning

Investment alone cannot save distressed communities

Policies for reviving such places have to dovetail with the interests of residents

Wednesday, 24 April, 2019

ExplainerBank of England

Who will replace Mark Carney as Bank of England governor?

Six names stand out in race to secure top job at UK’s central bank

Wednesday, 6 March, 2019

US-China trade dispute

Xi Jinping needs a trade deal just as much as Donald Trump does

While elected leaders can blame predecessors in bad times, Beijing must appear unfailing

Wednesday, 6 March, 2019

ReviewEconomics books

Have markets and states forgotten about people?

Raghuram Rajan’s The Third Pillar skilfully unpicks the tensions between capitalism, democracy and community

Monday, 10 December, 2018

FT People: Public affairs

India’s central bank governor Urjit Patel resigns amid tense stand-off

Reserve Bank of India head has been at odds with the government over its independence

Tuesday, 4 December, 2018

US-China trade dispute

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping must negotiate a careful trade deal

Making China feel like a country under siege risks causing cold, or even hot, war

Tuesday, 6 November, 2018

Reserve Bank of India

Former Indian central bank governor Rajan wades into row

Economist warns of the risks of eroding the Reserve Bank of India’s independence

Sunday, 12 August, 2018

Indian business & finance

Bank of Baroda chair tells New Delhi to back off state bank hires

Government involvement in hiring top executives hurts institutions, says Ravi Venkatesan

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