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Barry Eichengreen
For Barry Eichengreen's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 13, 2020
The COVID-19 debt dogs that didn’t bark
The expected financial tsunami crisis never arrived. Just six countries have defaulted on their sovereign debt, and only Argentina and Ecuador have restructured their debts.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 10, 2020
America’s dangerous transition
Biden now, like FDR then, must reiterate his message of hope and unity as an antidote to the coronavirus and political division.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 15, 2020
Training for the pandemic economy
Policymakers must take the right steps to ease the transition to the world being created by COVID-19.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 9, 2020
Rage against the pandemic
Racial disparities in the impact of the COVID-19 crisis are fueling the U.S. protests.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 18, 2020
Managing the coming global debt crisis
Suspending developing economies' debt didn't work in the 1980s and it won't work now.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 11, 2020
A crash course in Coronanomics 101
The effectiveness of macroeconomic tools are limited in the battle against the pandemic.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 17, 2019
Will Beijing undergo a revolution of rising expectations?
Amid much discussion of the challenges facing the Chinese economy, the lineup of usual suspects typically excludes the most worrying scenario of all: popular unrest.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 16, 2019
Will Libra be stillborn?
The remedy for the financial woes of people in developing countries isn't going to come from Facebook.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 14, 2019
Shelter from the storm in 2019
Global economic, financial and political stability depends on outcomes in four areas.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 10, 2018
The phony America-China truce
The U.S. and China have very different views of what they had signed up for in the truce.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 19, 2018
The dollar and its discontents
Trump's enforcement of Iran sanctions could undermine the dollar's global primacy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2018
The myth of the stable cryptocurrency
The problems with the latest wave of cryptocurrencies will be familiar to anyone who has encountered even a single study of speculative attacks on pegged exchange rates.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 13, 2018
Globalization with Chinese characteristics
Trump's 'America First' policy is making space for China to shape international trade.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 14, 2018
China and the future of democracy
Will China's power and prosperity really boost the global appeal of its authoritarian model?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 11, 2018
Can a U.S.-China trade war be averted?
By eschewing escalation in response to the Trump administration's widening tariffs on its exports, China can jeopardizing the global trade system that is fueling its growth.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 19, 2018
The dollar's doldrums
Trump-related uncertainty may be one reason among many behind the greenback's weakness.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 16, 2018
Ready or not for the next recession?
Policymakers normally respond to recessions by cutting interest rates, reducing taxes, and boosting transfers to casualties of the downturn. But, for a combination of economic and political reasons, the U.S., in particular, is ill-prepared to respond normally.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 17, 2017
Two myths about automation
While many people believe that technological progress and job destruction are accelerating dramatically, there is no evidence of either trend.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 15, 2017
Are we at the demise of dollar diplomacy?
Pundits have been saying last rites for the dollar's global dominance since the 1960s. They may finally be right.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 11, 2017
Crouching Donald, paper tiger
The summit at Mar-a-Lago showed that even a president as reckless as Trump knows that the U.S. cannot afford to antagonize the Chinese.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Saudi Arabia steps up Gaza-related arrests as Israel ties edge closer
The arrests for Gaza-related posts indicate Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s regime will take a hard line against citizens not toeing the line when it comes to normalizing ties with Israel.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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