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  • What a banking union means for Europe
    Essay by Philip Whyte, 05 December 2012
    What a banking union means for Europe
  • Economic recovery requires a better deal for labour
    Policy brief by Simon Tilford, 05 November 2012
    Economic recovery requires a better deal for labour
  • Germany's choice: Higher inflation or sovereign defaults
    Insight by Simon Tilford, 09 May 2012
    Germany's choice
  • In defence of Anglo-Saxon capitalism
    Insight by Charles Grant, 29 September 2008

    Those who never liked ‘Anglo-Saxon’ capitalism are feeling smug. Marxists, fans of ‘Rhineland’ capitalism and those who simply cannot stand American power are crowing.
  • Why free markets have little to do with inequality
    Opinion piece by Philip Whyte
    Financial Times, 02 June 2008

    Many Europeans believe liberal economic reforms are incompatible with social justice. The US and the UK, they point out, have more liberal markets for products and labour than in continental Europe - but also higher levels of poverty and income inequality.
  • Let's hear it for the Transatlantic Economic Council
    Insight by Philip Whyte, 23 May 2008

    Some institutions get less attention than they deserve. Arguably, one of these is the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC). On May 13th 2008 it met for the second time since its launch in 2007.
  • Eurozone economic outlook: Too much complacency
    Insight by Simon Tilford, 03 April 2008

    A year ago the prospect of the dollar falling to 1.60 against the euro would have brought on cold sweats across Europe. Yet, here we are and there is no sense of crisis.
  • A joint response to the credit crunch
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 19 March 2008

    Ailing banks are being rescued, markets remain frozen, economic numbers are becoming gloomier. Of course, central banks and governments are focusing on fire-fighting, on cutting interest rates, on providing cash to liquidity-starved banks and to consumers.
  • Time for the Export-Weltmeister to start consuming
    Insight by Simon Tilford, 13 February 2008

    Too many Europeans are blaming the US for the economic slowdown in Europe, as if everything would have been fine if only the Americans were not so irresponsible. This is complacent.
  • Can the EU learn to live with Chinese mercantilism?
    Insight by Philip Whyte, 29 October 2007

    Not long after its launch, the euro was famously dismissed by a disgruntled currency trader as a “toilet currency”. How things have changed.
  • The wrong benchmark for Eastern Europe
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 25 January 2007

    In November last year, Anders Aslund, a long-time observer of transition economies, rang the alarm bells over Eastern Europe. In an FT article he talked about “Central Europe’s political malaise” and warned that budget profligacy and reform fatigue would keep the new members from catching up with the West.