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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Accounting for Ourselves: What Fedwire Tells Us About Fed Losses, Cost Recovery, and Risk
Without transparent accounting practices and proper risk management, the Federal Reserve’s current financial losses—unprecedented in scale—and the questionable accounting practices it uses to downplay their impact threaten public trust, economic stability, and the integrity of fiscal policy.
Tariff Turmoil and the Money Markets: Single Payer Insurance to the Rescue
In Treasury markets, there are no libertarians, only grateful recipients of single-payer insurance for ailing financial markets.
Steering AI to Enhance Jobs and Prepare for Future Transformation
How to guide innovative AI efforts to increase labor demand and create better-paying jobs?
7 Truths About Trump’s Tariffs — And the High-Stakes Future They Shape
Top money-and-politics expert Thomas Ferguson breaks down the real drivers of Trump’s aggressive tariff agenda, from big crypto plans to a new world order emerging.
Trade in the Time of Trump
Trump ran in both 2016 and 2024 on a promise to reverse the deindustrialization caused by globalization and free trade, using tariffs as his main tool. But the critical question now is: Can it work?
How Shareholder Activism Became Toxic—and How to Fix It
New book reveals how and why hedge-fund activists have been able to suck the life from big-name companies like J.C. Penney and Samsung with their short-sighted profit-grabs. Can their harmful activities be stopped?
How Diversity and Pluralism Build Knowledge: The Case of Economics
If there is no universally accepted outside authority to tell us how to judge theories then knowledge is only going to progress by means of debate
How the Wall Street Journal Blew the Story of the Democrats and Inflation
The firehose of affluent consumption continues to drive inflation, not the stimulus package
Time to Stop Rolling Dice: Why Bigger is Better in Climate Investments
Earlier investments make large-scale emission reductions easier to do over time because their unit costs drop
What Is a “Fair” Drug Price?
Medicare Needs a Perspective on “Collective and Cumulative Learning” in Inflation Reduction Act Negotiations