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Stories by James K. Galbraith for Project Syndicate

Published:Wednesday | December 6, 2023 | 9:39 AMJames K. Galbraith for Project Syndicate

AUSTIN: In a recent commentary for the Financial Times, Martin Wolf trots out the spectre of a “public-debt disaster,” that recurrent staple of bond-market chatter. The essence of his argument is that since debt-to-GDP ratios are high,...

Published:Wednesday | September 27, 2023 | 9:01 AMJames K. Galbraith for Project Syndicate

AUSTIN: In a recent CNN interview, Paul Krugman of The New York Times finds it hard to understand why ordinary American voters do not share his euphoric view of US President Joe Biden’s goldilocks economy – which appears to be neither...

Published:Wednesday | January 11, 2023 | 8:14 AMJames K. Galbraith for Project Syndicate

AUSTIN : In his bid to become Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy apparently agreed to a demand, voiced by Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina, that he commits to “shut down the government rather than raise...

Published:Tuesday | February 1, 2022 | 5:15 PMA Digital Integration & Marketing production, James K. Galbraith for Project Syndicate

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, COLORADO: US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has now committed to putting US monetary policy on a course of rising interest rates, which could boost the short-term rate (on federal funds and treasury bills) by at least 200...

Published:Tuesday | January 25, 2022 | 9:58 PMA Digital Integration & Marketing production, James K. Galbraith for Project Syndicate

By James K. Galbraith   AUSTIN: With a single commentary in The Guardian (and an unintended assist from New York Times columnist Paul Krugman), economist Isabella Weber of the University of Massachusetts injected clear thinking into a debate...

Published:Wednesday | January 12, 2022 | 6:10 AMA Digital Integration & Marketing production, James K. Galbraith for Project Syndicate

AUSTIN: With the anniversary of the January 6 riot now over, let’s focus on the big picture. The great anomaly of the 2020 US presidential election was that Joe Biden won the national popular vote by seven million votes, yet came within 43,...

Published:Wednesday | August 25, 2021 | 7:44 AMJames K. Galbraith for Project Syndicate

TOWNSHEND, VT – Now that so many sad truths about Afghanistan are being spoken aloud, even in the major media – let me add one more: The war, from start to finish, was about politics, not in Afghanistan but in the United States....

Published:Wednesday | June 23, 2021 | 7:16 AMJames K. Galbraith for Project Syndicate, A Digital Integration & Marketing production

AUSTIN – In a recent essay on Samantha Power, President Joe Biden’s new administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, Michelle Goldberg of The New York Times writes – correctly – that Power’s...

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