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| Kenneth Rogoff
May 4, 2021, Opinion: "Addressing within-country inequality may be the political imperative of the moment. But tackling vastly greater cross-country disparities – especially those affecting the two-thirds of humanity living outside the advanced economies and China – is the real key to maintaining geopolitical stability in the twenty-first century."
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| Kenneth Rogoff
April 21, 2021, Paper: "Faced with a global natural catastrophe, countries must spend to deal with the immediate crisis, and to reduce longer-term economic scarring. Sustained infrastructure and education spending can help counter headwinds to the long-term outlook. However, the fact that government borrowing rates are at extremely low levels does not imply that the very high debt, especially short-term borrowing, is a free lunch. Real borrowing…
| Kenneth Rogoff
April 9, 2021, Audio: "Richard Clarida, Federal Reserve Vice Chairman, policy makers are looking for “hard numbers” on whether they’re reaching their goals on price stability and employment before adjusting interest rates. Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University Professor of Economics & Public Policy, says a rise in interest rates at this point in the global pandemic recovery would “turn the world upside down.” Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize-Winning…
| Kenneth Rogoff
April 9, 2021, Video: "Harvard University Economics Professor Kenneth Rogoff says it would take a "shock to the system" to undermine the U.S. dollar’s hegemony, which “isn’t something that’s going to go away overnight.” He speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.”"
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| Kenneth Rogoff
March 30, 2021, Opinion: "Today, it seems to be an article of faith among US policymakers and many economists that the world’s appetite for dollar debt is virtually insatiable. But a modernization of China’s exchange-rate arrangements could deal the dollar’s status a painful blow." …
| Kenneth Rogoff
March 29, 2021, Video: "FOX Business Network (FBN) is a financial news channel delivering real-time information across all platforms that impact both Main Street and Wall Street. Headquartered in New York — the business capital of the world — FBN launched in October 2007 and is one of the leading business networks on television, having topped CNBC in Business Day viewers for the second consecutive year in 2018. The network is available in nearly…
| Kenneth Rogoff
March 1, 2021, Opinion; "In the near term, markets should not be too worried about a possible spike in demand driving up inflation and interest rates, causing asset prices to fall across the board. But longer-term inflation risks are skewed much more to the upside than many investors and policymakers seem to realize."…
| Kenneth Rogoff
February 24, 2021, Video: "Well, this may surprise you, but I'm broadly supportive of it. I think President Biden's got to take what he can get while he can get it, which may not be for long. Yes, there is a lot of spending in it, which is really hard to explain. It's not COVID-related."
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February 19, 2021, Video: "One of the most iconic brands in financial television returns for today's issues and today's world. This week's Wall Street Week features David Westin's interviews with Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard Professor of Economics Ken Rogoff, Former Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette, Breakthrough Energy Ventures Science Lead Eric Toone, University of Massachusetts Amherst Associate Professor of Economics…
| Kenneth Rogoff
February 11, 2021, Paper: "The advent of the Covid-19 pandemic has witnessed a strong uptick in paper currency demand across advanced economies, even as contactless methods surged ahead of cash in payments. This article explores these two contrasting phenomena, which are in fact continuations of much longer-term trends. The use of cash, while still important for small in-person transactions, has been declining as a share of overall consumer…