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Don’t miss our new PS Big Question, featuring Anat Admati, @profhilaryallen.bsky.social, Jayati Ghosh, Simon Johnson, Corey Klemmer, and Erin Lockwood. bit.ly/4puqQ2o
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Don’t miss our new PS Big Question, featuring Anat Admati, @profhilaryallen.bsky.social, Jayati Ghosh, Simon Johnson, Corey Klemmer, and Erin Lockwood. bit.ly/4puqQ2o
The arrival of generative AI means that everything must change. The artists of tomorrow will have to be remunerated in ways other than through copyright protections, @simmonte.bsky.social argues. bit.ly/3XlaIV6
Serf Music and Its Alternatives
Jacques Attali sees the impact of AI on musicians' remuneration as a bellwether of broader developments.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The arrival of generative AI means that everything must change. The artists of tomorrow will have to be remunerated in ways other than through copyright protections, @simmonte.bsky.social argues. bit.ly/3XlaIV6
Europe risks falling behind not for lack of technology, but for lack of alignment between its industrial, climate, and procurement policies, Liesbeth Casier, @jorenverschaeve.bsky.social, and Christophe Deboffe explain. bit.ly/4p6qr6A
Europe Must Stop Squandering the Power of Its Purse
Liesbeth Casier, Joren Verschaeve and Christophe Deboffe show how the European Union could be using public procurement more effectively to advance its climate goals.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Europe risks falling behind not for lack of technology, but for lack of alignment between its industrial, climate, and procurement policies, Liesbeth Casier, @jorenverschaeve.bsky.social, and Christophe Deboffe explain. bit.ly/4p6qr6A
After a choppy year for the US economy, Nouriel Roubini sees three possible scenarios for the year ahead. bit.ly/44fPc87
The Outlook for the US Economy in 2026
Nouriel Roubini sees a short, shallow downturn followed by a strong recovery and lower inflation as the most likely scenario.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
After a choppy year for the US economy, Nouriel Roubini sees three possible scenarios for the year ahead. bit.ly/44fPc87
America’s extraordinary embrace of the Russian view of history signals the definitive decline of American power or influence in the world, Harold James observes. bit.ly/4oweuWQ
Trump’s Stab in the Back
Harold James reflects on the developments leading up to the latest release of a US “peace” plan for Ukraine.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
America’s extraordinary embrace of the Russian view of history signals the definitive decline of American power or influence in the world, Harold James observes. bit.ly/4oweuWQ
Over the past two decades, US states have quietly hollowed out their transportation departments. With fewer experienced staff, states pay more and have little to show for it, write @zliscow.bsky.social and Cailin Slattery. bit.ly/48DAl9N
Fixing America’s Self-Inflicted Infrastructure Crisis
Zachary Liscow & Cailin Slattery demonstrate that a key factor is ensuring that states hire and retain enough experienced engineers.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Over the past two decades, US states have quietly hollowed out their transportation departments. With fewer experienced staff, states pay more and have little to show for it, write @zliscow.bsky.social and Cailin Slattery. bit.ly/48DAl9N
Donald Trump’s “peace plan” is nothing but a brazen attempt to eviscerate the rule of law and legitimize Putin’s theft of Ukrainian territory, argues Chris Patten. bit.ly/4iuxsf4
Don’t Let Trump Sell Out Ukraine
Chris Patten says EU policymakers have no choice but to oppose an authoritarian US administration undermining global norms.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Donald Trump’s “peace plan” is nothing but a brazen attempt to eviscerate the rule of law and legitimize Putin’s theft of Ukrainian territory, argues Chris Patten. bit.ly/4iuxsf4
Donald Trump's 28-point peace plan for Ukraine embodies a vision of international relations that directly jeopardizes European security, writes Zaki Laidi. bit.ly/4rmW5yf
Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan Threatens Europe
Zaki Laïdi thinks that virtually any version of the proposed framework would amount to a strategic defeat.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Donald Trump's 28-point peace plan for Ukraine embodies a vision of international relations that directly jeopardizes European security, writes Zaki Laidi. bit.ly/4rmW5yf
While Donald Trump's administration is working with Ukrainian officials to “refine” its 28-point peace plan, Ukraine's negotiating leverage is limited, notes Nina L. Khrushcheva – especially in light of recent corruption revelations. bit.ly/4pDE6C1
Ukraine Loses Again
Nina L. Khrushcheva shows how Donald Trump’s self-dealing, combined with a corruption scandal, will harm ordinary Ukrainians.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
While Donald Trump's administration is working with Ukrainian officials to “refine” its 28-point peace plan, Ukraine's negotiating leverage is limited, notes Nina L. Khrushcheva – especially in light of recent corruption revelations. bit.ly/4pDE6C1
While China’s economy slows, India is poised to become the world’s fastest-growing emerging economy. To sustain that pace, it must improve public services and reaffirm its commitment to secular democracy, writes Anne O. Krueger. bit.ly/3Xn4GTM
Can Modi Turn India into a Developed Economy by 2047?
Anne O. Krueger examines the country’s prospects for sustained growth and the vulnerabilities that could prevent it.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
While China’s economy slows, India is poised to become the world’s fastest-growing emerging economy. To sustain that pace, it must improve public services and reaffirm its commitment to secular democracy, writes Anne O. Krueger. bit.ly/3Xn4GTM
If Ukraine is pressured to accept terms that amount to defeat, the rest of the world will conclude that deterring a future invasion by Russia, China, or any other nuclear power requires building nuclear weapons, observes @timothysnyder.bsky.social. bit.ly/4oWqSA5
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 AM
If Ukraine is pressured to accept terms that amount to defeat, the rest of the world will conclude that deterring a future invasion by Russia, China, or any other nuclear power requires building nuclear weapons, observes @timothysnyder.bsky.social. bit.ly/4oWqSA5
For Sweden, a new strategic partnership with Canada is a power play: a way to consolidate its new role as a NATO ally, notes Carla Norrlöf. bit.ly/4ppQ81A
Why the New Canadian-Swedish Partnership Matters
Carla Norrlöf sees sound geopolitical reasons for the two Arctic middle powers to deepen their military-industrial ties.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
For Sweden, a new strategic partnership with Canada is a power play: a way to consolidate its new role as a NATO ally, notes Carla Norrlöf. bit.ly/4ppQ81A
There is an upside to geopolitical fragmentation, according to Ellen Davies, Chema Triki, and @nimrodzalk.bsky.social: the rules and systems that have constrained Africa’s development and industrial policies are being eroded. bit.ly/4io3x8j
How Africa Can Meet Its Green Industrialization Imperative
Ellen Davies, Chema Triki and Nimrod Zalk urge governments to take advantage of the policy space created by the unraveling of the multilateral order.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
There is an upside to geopolitical fragmentation, according to Ellen Davies, Chema Triki, and @nimrodzalk.bsky.social: the rules and systems that have constrained Africa’s development and industrial policies are being eroded. bit.ly/4io3x8j
With the US government taking direct stakes in rare-earth and critical-metal companies, Europe cannot remain a bystander. But nor can it emulate the American approach, notes @eib.org's Nicola Beer. bit.ly/4rCCH0r
Europe’s Critical Raw Materials Strategy
Nicola Beer explains how the European Union can build resilience without abandoning its commitment to fair play.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
With the US government taking direct stakes in rare-earth and critical-metal companies, Europe cannot remain a bystander. But nor can it emulate the American approach, notes @eib.org's Nicola Beer. bit.ly/4rCCH0r
At COP30 in Brazil, major fossil-fuel producers have finally been forced to acknowledge that phasing down oil, gas, and coal in a fair and orderly way is essential to meaningful climate progress, writes Adriana Abdenur. bit.ly/3M1HbgA
A New Opening for a Fossil-Fuel Phaseout?
Adriana Abdenur lauds Brazil for confronting long-ignored tradeoffs and aligning climate ambition with practical governance.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
At COP30 in Brazil, major fossil-fuel producers have finally been forced to acknowledge that phasing down oil, gas, and coal in a fair and orderly way is essential to meaningful climate progress, writes Adriana Abdenur. bit.ly/3M1HbgA
For traditional banks, the risk of runs is mitigated by the central bank’s lender-of-last-resort function, points out Lucrezia Reichlin. If stablecoins become systemically important, central banks may have to extend comparable protections. bit.ly/483NSHy
Stablecoins Are Inevitable
Lucrezia Reichlin applies the lessons of past financial innovations to predict where regulation is headed.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
For traditional banks, the risk of runs is mitigated by the central bank’s lender-of-last-resort function, points out Lucrezia Reichlin. If stablecoins become systemically important, central banks may have to extend comparable protections. bit.ly/483NSHy
Investors remain exuberant about AI, betting that the opportunities will outweigh the risks. In a new PS Big Picture, @carlbfrey.bsky.social, Ricardo Hausmann, Noreena Hertz, Michael Spence, and others consider the extent to which that’s true. bit.ly/4rdIKbe
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Investors remain exuberant about AI, betting that the opportunities will outweigh the risks. In a new PS Big Picture, @carlbfrey.bsky.social, Ricardo Hausmann, Noreena Hertz, Michael Spence, and others consider the extent to which that’s true. bit.ly/4rdIKbe
Besides the basic injustice of allowing an aggressor to decide the outcome of the war it started, there are six fundamental problems with Donald Trump’s Russia-Ukraine “peace” plan, argues @timothysnyder.bsky.social. bit.ly/4oWqSA5
The Wrong Way to Peace in Ukraine
Timothy Snyder thinks the proposed settlement negotiated by Russia and the US would make the world far more dangerous.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Besides the basic injustice of allowing an aggressor to decide the outcome of the war it started, there are six fundamental problems with Donald Trump’s Russia-Ukraine “peace” plan, argues @timothysnyder.bsky.social. bit.ly/4oWqSA5
Now that MAGA holds power in the US, its chief ideologues see opportunities to expand the movement by exerting pressure on the “decadent” Europeans, Joschka Fischer warns. bit.ly/3K7y11y
How MAGA Hopes to Pervert Transatlanticism
Joschka Fischer worries that the Trump administration will try to bring down Europe’s post-nationalist project.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Now that MAGA holds power in the US, its chief ideologues see opportunities to expand the movement by exerting pressure on the “decadent” Europeans, Joschka Fischer warns. bit.ly/3K7y11y
It might seem that a corruption investigation focused on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s inner circle could not come at a worse time for the country. But this may turn out to be just the scandal Ukraine needs, observes Anna Husarska. bit.ly/4oS4SXc
Why Ukraine Deserves to Survive
Anna Husarska argues that an ongoing investigation of high-level corruption shows what the country is – and what Russia isn't.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It might seem that a corruption investigation focused on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s inner circle could not come at a worse time for the country. But this may turn out to be just the scandal Ukraine needs, observes Anna Husarska. bit.ly/4oS4SXc
Democratic collapse does not require a sudden shock. An electoral democracy can slowly drift toward dictatorship until it reaches the point of no return, writes Kaushik Basu. bit.ly/4p5Arx0
How Democracies Learn to Goose-Step
Kaushik Basu highlights the subtle ways social pressures cause people to accept constraints they once rejected.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Democratic collapse does not require a sudden shock. An electoral democracy can slowly drift toward dictatorship until it reaches the point of no return, writes Kaushik Basu. bit.ly/4p5Arx0
The way to counter Chinese imports in technologically sophisticated areas is not to impose tariffs. It is to deploy modern industrial policies, @drodrik.bsky.social explains. bit.ly/485ckHf
How to Respond to Chinese Imports
Dani Rodrik explains what governments should be doing to address the risks to national security, innovation, and jobs.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The way to counter Chinese imports in technologically sophisticated areas is not to impose tariffs. It is to deploy modern industrial policies, @drodrik.bsky.social explains. bit.ly/485ckHf
The real measure of Gaza’s recovery is how effectively short-term relief builds enduring national institutions that allow Palestinians to regain dignity and disengage from militias, argue Turnwait Michael and Erin McCandless. bit.ly/4rbNSNh
The Right Way to Rebuild Gaza’s Health System
Turnwait Michael & Erin McCandless think emergency assistance should be designed and implemented in ways that strengthen local institutions.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The real measure of Gaza’s recovery is how effectively short-term relief builds enduring national institutions that allow Palestinians to regain dignity and disengage from militias, argue Turnwait Michael and Erin McCandless. bit.ly/4rbNSNh
Will the AI boom continue? In a new PS Big Picture, Carl Benedikt Frey, Michael Spence, Lee Jong-Wha, Angela Huyue Zhang, and others examine the factors likely to shape the technology’s future. Read it at the link. bit.ly/4rdIKbe
November 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Will the AI boom continue? In a new PS Big Picture, Carl Benedikt Frey, Michael Spence, Lee Jong-Wha, Angela Huyue Zhang, and others examine the factors likely to shape the technology’s future. Read it at the link. bit.ly/4rdIKbe
The G20 must maintain the momentum of South Africa’s presidency and push for reforms to international finance and cooperation that will help Africa integrate into the global economy, writes Hippolyte Fofack. bit.ly/4a1BPMg
November 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The G20 must maintain the momentum of South Africa’s presidency and push for reforms to international finance and cooperation that will help Africa integrate into the global economy, writes Hippolyte Fofack. bit.ly/4a1BPMg