RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Find out what our senior staff and colleagues have to say about current economic news, financial developments, regional and country issues, and public policy.

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RealTime Economic Issues Watch

India’s wheat export ban: Bad economics, good politics, modest impact

Cullen S. Hendrix (PIIE)
May 23, 2022
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Russia's war on Ukraine: A sanctions timeline

Chad P. Bown (PIIE)

May 20, 2022
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The US labor market could be cooling down

Jason Furman (PIIE) and Wilson Powell III (Harvard University)

May 6, 2022
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Is the Russia-Europe energy bind about to unravel?

Steven Fries (PIIE)

April 28, 2022
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China's recent trade moves create outsize problems for everyone else

Chad P. Bown (PIIE) and Yilin Wang (PIIE)

April 25, 2022
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The United States should seize Russian assets for Ukraine’s reconstruction

Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE) and Jeffrey J. Schott (PIIE)

April 21, 2022
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"Zero-COVID" in Shanghai comes at high social and economic costs

Tianlei Huang (PIIE)

April 15, 2022
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The EU should sanction Sberbank and other Russian banks as it ponders banning Russian oil and gas

Joshua Kirschenbaum* and Nicolas Véron (PIIE)

April 15, 2022
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Higher productivity growth boosts pay—to a greater degree in the United States than Canada

Jacob Greenspon (Harvard University), Anna Stansbury (PIIE) and Lawrence H. Summers (Harvard University)
April 14, 2022
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Looking at all the wrong places to reduce the US trade deficit

Robert Z. Lawrence (PIIE)
April 12, 2022