Comment

An objective assessment will find that the Trans-Pacific-Partnership TPP is no «slam dunk» that Congress should approve automatically. A column by Simon Johnson.

A lethal combination of self-fulfilling expectations and policy errors could cause economic reality to bend to the dismal mood prevailing in financial markets. A column by Anatole Kaletsky.

Creditor countries’ central bankers must stop trying to manipulate their economies with more potentially counterproductive monetary easing. They should allow the recovery to run its course. A column by Daniel Gros.

China will not plunge in a crisis barring huge mistakes which are always possible. Even if it only grows at 5%, or even 3%, this is still better than in the West. A column by Charles Wyplosz.

The fear is that policies will fail to pivot away from reliance on central banks, and end up looking back to the new normal, with all of its limitations, as a period of relative calm and wellbeing. A column by Mohamed A. El-Erian.

Defenders of open societies must rally support for their ideas, uphold the values of the West, and prevent the preachers of populism from expanding the Angry Quarter. A column by Carl Bildt.

Policymakers in industrialized countries need to stop thinking about falling oil prices as representing risks to the economy and start considering their geopolitical implications. A column by Harold James.

To make real progress toward reviving their economies, the Eurozone's individual countries need to to focus on structural reforms and fiscal stimulus instead of relying on the ECB. A column by Martin Feldstein.

Modern macroeconomics is based upon the false belief that the economy is essentially understandable and predictable. This leads to misguided policies. A column by William White.

The United Kingdom is vulnerable to breakdown anyway, due to a lack of a common identity. Leaving the European Union would render the UK even more fragile. A column by Harold James.

Welfare «magnetism» not only leads to an inefficient geographical distribution of people; it also erodes and damages the magnet. A column by Hans-Werner Sinn.

A president is merely a product to be marketed. Its quality is not necessarily what drives its success – if it were, Donald Trump would not be regarded as a serious candidate for the Republicans. A column by Nina Khrushcheva.