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

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German Worries: Fear Fosters Crisis

Jul 20, 2016

Inflation, the euro crisis – for years there has been one worry hype after another. Yet fear frequently turns out to be wrong. We need a committee of wise men in charge of dealing with the real risks.

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Brexit, Trump and the challenge of populism

Jul 6, 2016

What we’re reading: As the shock of the UK referendum vote to leave the European Union continues to roil, a number of analysts see it as revealing dynamics of which all Western policymakers ought to be aware

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Channeling Charles Kindleberger on Brexit

Jul 5, 2016

The economic historian would have seen the British vote to leave the European Union as part of a larger drama of centralization versus pluralism