Economics adviser to Barack Obama during the campaign, and now a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and chief economist of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board, Aust...

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The economy is damaged and needs fixing. But Peter Brown argues that we're not asking the right questions to clarify what a healthy economy really is. Starting from first principles, h...

Jared Bernstein talks about Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? (And Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries). Is Social Security really going bust? Why does the stock market go up when emplo...

In a special address to the 2009 World Economic Forum, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao admits the global financial crisis has a "rather big impact" on China's economy, but says it ...

Christina Romer discusses the Obama administration's integrated economic recovery strategy with particular focus on the importance of a healthy credit market in promoting U.S. recovery ...

Republican Presidential candidate Senator John McCain delivers a speech on economic policy. McCain cautions against the Obama tax hikes which he says will turn "this recession int...

Professor Hugh Patrick discusses the impact of the global economic crisis on Japan and outlines the road to recovery. "It was different that in the United States where we had a ho...

A leading proponent of behavioral economics, Robert Frank argues that nearly every decision we make is economic, our boundless desires constrained by our limited resources. Frank takes ...

With much of the developed world in recession, Asia's economies are suffering as exports crumble, capital flows reverse, and business and consumer confidence deteriorates. The ADB's Se...

Three leading financial analysts join Theodore Roosevelt IV, Managing Director of Barclay's Capital, for a discussion of the state of the American and global economy and prospects for n...

The breadth and depth of the financial crisis have forced policy-makers, investors and consumers to rethink long-held assumptions about governance, growth and globalization. What is th...

The global financial crisis has generated a vigorous debate about the relevance of mainstream economics for understanding the real world. One view is that a new economic model is neede...

Policy analyst Jacob Hacker reviews the dangerous escalation of America'­s uninsured and underinsured, and presents an innovative new plan for reshaping America's healthcare system, and...