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

Fatima Denton: We Need to Create Spaces to Democratize the ‘Just Transition’
“We need to look at the early warning systems in place and aspire to attain food security.”
Bank Stocks Rallied Today, But…

The Financial Crisis of 2023: Protecting Big Finance, Coming and Going
There needs to be a safe place for businesses to place their reserves and working capital

Anatomy of a Banking Crisis
There is a banking crisis. Again. Banking regulators were asleep at the switch. Again.
Can it Happen Again?


Emerging Markets and the Balance of Payments: Challenges to Growth and Sustainability
A model that captures key vulnerabilities and structural weaknesses of developing countries’ trade and production structures.
Victoria Chick (1936-2023)

The Quasi-Inflation of 2021-2022: A Case of Bad Analysis and Worse Response
Why the conventional tools of the Phillips Curve, NAIRU, potential output, and money-supply growth are useless

Time Bomb in Global Finance

High-level Panel Discussion: Development Prospects in a Fractured World
As 2022 comes to a close, panelists discuss the immediate prospects for the global economy, the dangers of a lost decade for developing countries and what needs to be done to put the SDGs back on track.

Bankman-Fried, Political Money, and the Crash of FTX
How Showering Money on Both Parties Paralyzed Regulators

You’re Living in a World Wrought by the Federal Reserve. Notice Anything Wrong?
In her new book, veteran Wall Street watcher and economist Nomi Prins warns that central bank strategies deployed since the financial crisis are destroying the real economy, worsening inequality, and creating societal chaos.