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  • 28 Feb 2025
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • United States
    • US Economy

    Economic diplomacy: A fairy tale response to Trump’s tariffs

    Greg Earl
    Australia’s retirement savings pool is an important new economic relations lever, but it can only be rolled out so many times.
  • 18 Feb 2025
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Global Economy
    • United States
    • US Economy

    Lessons for Australia’s policy dilemmas from America’s “post-Neoliberal delusion”

    Jenny Gordon
    Economists prefer pricing approaches, but restricting choice through regulatory requirements is far more common – and carries a cost.
  • 20 Jan 2025
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • United States
    • US Economy

    Is DOGE the answer to improving productivity?

    Jenny Gordon
    Putting fear into the bureaucracy is not a way to encourage better results.
  • 10 Jan 2025
    • Trade
    • United States
    • US Economy

    The riotous return of the mercantilists

    Ved Shinde
    Trump’s tariffs mantra has changed the zeitgeist – but to a habit nations have long held.
  • 14 Nov 2024
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Free Trade
    • Trade
    • United States
    • US Economy

    Economic diplomacy: It’s populists vs plutocrats in Trump Take 2

    Greg Earl
    Australia’s hopes of a modest economic impact from the Trump administration’s actions will require navigating the financial tensions at its heart.
  • 2 Oct 2024
    • Global Economy
    • Geo-economics
    • The Biden Presidency
    • The Trump Presidency
    • United States
    • US Economy
    • US Elections

    Trumpian economic nationalism is not what the world or America needs

    Roland Rajah
    Donald Trump’s policies are a recipe for higher global inflation, greater fragmentation, and more inequality.
  • 1 Oct 2024
    • China
    • The Biden Presidency
    • The Trump Presidency
    • United States
    • US Economy
    • US Elections

    Kamala Harris and China: Competition and antagonism, continued

    Richard McGregor
    Harris is largely a blank slate on China policy. She is likely to stick to Biden policy positions and instincts, which means relations will remain rocky.
  • 30 Sep 2024
    • The Biden Presidency
    • The Trump Presidency
    • United States
    • US Economy
    • US Elections

    Kamala Harris and trade: Better than the alternative, but not much

    Jenny Gordon
    Judging by the lack of major policy announcements from the Harris campaign, her administration is likely to largely maintain the Biden trajectory.
  • 30 Jul 2024
    • Global Economy
    • Global Financial Crisis
    • Trade
    • United States
    • US Economy

    Made in the USA: America’s gambit to reclaim industrial primacy

    Jack Goldsmith
    Dominance in next-generation industry relies on people and partnerships to short-circuit China’s leading edge.
  • 1 Nov 2023
    • India
    • India's Economy
    • Europe
    • Europe's Economy
    • Trade
    • Middle East
    • Iran
    • Israel
    • Saudi Arabia
    • United Arab Emirates
    • United States
    • US Economy

    History repeats: A new (old) economic corridor emerges

    Ved Shinde
    Renewed connectivity between India, the Middle East and Europe shows how maps are temporary, but geography persists.
  • 24 Oct 2023
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • United States
    • US Economy

    How should Australia react to Bidenomics?

    Stephen Grenville
    Difference in philosophy is not to be feared.
  • 18 Oct 2023
    • China
    • China's Economy
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • China-Australia Relations
    • Global Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Trade
    • United States
    • US Economy

    Australia must play the geoeconomics game, or risk being side-lined

    Naoise McDonagh
    The world is moving away from a rules-based order and towards power politics. Is Canberra ready?
  • 3 Aug 2023
    • China
    • India
    • Russia
    • Global Economy
    • United States
    • US Economy

    De-dollarisation: shifting power between the US and BRICS

    Michael Roach
    Will a new global reserve currency threaten the greenback's supremacy? The short answer is yes.
  • 26 Jul 2023
    • China
    • China's Economy
    • Global Economy
    • Free Trade
    • Geo-economics
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • United States
    • US Economy

    A return to old-school mercantilism?

    Ved Shinde
    Suspicion and economic competition are forcing states back in time, with protectionism and self-sufficiency the new norm.
  • 16 Jun 2023
    • Global Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Global Economic Governance
    • United States
    • US Economy

    Is US industrial policy headed in the wrong direction?

    Connor O’Brien
    Washington’s geopolitical strategy threatens to entrench economic hierarchies and undermine the global green transition.
  • 13 Jun 2023
    • Australia's Economy
    • US Economy

    The end of the neo-liberal order?

    Stephen Grenville
    With a new consensus in Washington, it’s time for Canberra to consider a shake-up of misguided industrial policy.
  • 8 Jun 2023
    • China
    • China's Economy
    • Europe's Economy
    • European Union
    • Global Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Geo-economics
    • IMF
    • United States
    • US Economy

    Economic diplomacy: Duelling D-words to delineate China

    Greg Earl
    Australia seems to be treading carefully around the G7’s agreement to de-risk dependence on the region’s biggest economy.
  • 27 Jul 2021
    • Trade
    • Chinese Trade
    • US Economy

    When the chips are down: Biden’s semiconductor war

    Tian He
    Export controls on US semiconductor tech into China didn’t stop with Trump.
  • 18 Dec 2019
    • Global Economy
    • US Economy

    Paul Volcker’s pragmatism: fighting inflation and financialization

    Wesley Widmaier
    Less an ideologue or demagogue, the former US Fed chair had an influence far beyond America, reaching Australia, too.
  • 15 Aug 2019
    • Global Economy
    • China's Economy
    • US Economy
    • Australia's Economy

    Economic diplomacy: China dependency and a notable departure

    Greg Earl
    Australia seems set to end this year about twice as dependent on China for its two-way trade than on the United States.
  • 8 Apr 2019
    • United States
    • US Economy
    • The Trump Presidency

    The useful myth of central bank independence

    Stephen Grenville
    If Alan Greenspan was “the Maestro”, then Fed chair Jay Powell needs also play to the orchestra to resist Donald Trump.
  • 16 Nov 2018
    • China's Economy
    • US Economy

    US versus China: the economic model

    Stephen Grenville
    Donald Trump might be a Republican, but not of the Ronald Reagan ilk, and it shows in his approach to China.
  • 3 Aug 2018
    • Global Economy
    • US Economy

    Can the Fed resist Trump’s pressure?

    Stephen Grenville
    The Federal Reserve faces a president from the world of real estate, where low interest rates are always good.
  • 24 May 2018
    • Global Economy
    • Global Financial Crisis
    • US Economy

    The tide is turning against US financial regulation

    Stephen Grenville
    The lessons of the 2008 banking failures look like they have already been forgotten – or erased.
  • 27 Feb 2018
    • US Economy
    • Australia's Economy

    Company tax cuts: America versus Australia

    Stephen Grenville
    Rather than continue a race-to-the-bottom on company tax, a sensible global regime is needed.
  • 11 Sep 2017
    • US Economy

    A new proposal to normalise US monetary policy

    Stephen Grenville
    Quantitative easing was misunderstood from the start, and enough confusion still exists to cause over-reaction.
  • 1 Aug 2017
    • US Economy
    • The Trump Presidency

    America: Full employment is not enough

    Stephen Grenville
    The United States has reached ‘full employment’ but this hasn’t created satisfactory jobs for a significant part of the work force.
  • 30 May 2017
    • US Economy
    • The Trump Presidency

    Is the US economy at full employment?

    Stephen Grenville
    If the economy is already back to full capacity, what hope is there for the many Trump voters who find themselves without satisfying jobs?
  • 21 Mar 2017
    • US Economy

    Are US Fed rate projections ‘behind the curve’?

    Stephen Grenville
    Perhaps the Fed has up its sleeve a supplementary way of tightening, in the form of unwinding quantitative easing.
  • 7 Feb 2017
    • Global Economy
    • US Economy

    Is Trump reigniting the currency wars?

    Stephen Grenville
    China's huge bilateral surplus with the United States - well over $300 billion each year - means it is high on the President's 'to do-over' list.
  • 30 Jan 2017
    • US Economy
    • The Trump Presidency

    Trump’s trade protectionism

    Stephen Grenville
    The key is a vibrant economy that creates new jobs. Trump’s protectionist measures are a distraction from this bigger challenge.

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