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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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To Understand China’s Economy, Look to Its Politics

Jun 7, 2018

The removal of term limits for Xi Jinping may be a better indicator of economic health—or crisis—than official statistics

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Worrying About the Deficit is So 17th Century

Jun 6, 2018

In “celebration” of the late Pete Peterson’s 92nd birthday (see guest list), an excerpt from 19th Century historian Lord Macaulay’s History of England, on hundreds of years of unwarranted panic about government debt.