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Moving at the Speed of Medicine Part II: Taking Systemness to the Next Level

Co-authored with Jake Crampton, founder and CEO of MedSpeed.

Evaluating the Claim that Cutting Corporate Taxes Will Raise Your Wages

Real disputes among professional economists rarely make their way into political debates. But that’s what’s happened with the issue of whether the Trump administration’s proposal to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent would mainly benefit shareholders or workers. Both sides make coherent arguments – but in the end, the evidence supports the proposal’s opponents.

10-Year Retrospective: Lesson 4 | People Know Injustice When They See It

The countries worst affected by the financial crisis, the United States and especially the United Kingdom, have since experienced severe political turbulence. I believe this can be directly traced back to the financial crisis and the way it was dealt with by governments, central banks and the financial elite.

Essentially, the general public came to the view that the elites’ first priority in the crisis was to look after each other. They were the first to get into the lifeboats.

EconVue Spotlight

Collaboration: Blockchain

Collaboration between banks and FinTech startups came to focus as financial media expanded on the need for collaboration, and a blockchain summit provided some cogent examples.

"Since 2016, there has been a significant move from banks fearing start-ups and start-ups wanting to disrupt banks, to start-ups and banks working together in harmony," writes Chris Skinner in "FinTech Collaboration."

Washington Should Take Note of Chinese Advancement in Brazil

I am sharing a copy of my new article on PRC activities in Brazil that originally appeared in Newsmax.

While partly related to Brazil's size, it is of note that, largely unnoticed in Washington D.C., Brazil is one of the countries in Latin America where the most significant major Chinese commercial advances have occurred during the past year.

Interviewing a Nobel Prize Winner

One of the great pleasures of my career is that I've gotten to interview several Nobel Prize economists, Here's the beginning of an interview I conducted in 2007 with this year's winner, Richard Thaler. He was the inventor, along with psychologist Daniel Kahnemann, of "behavioral economics." This school recognizes that people are not Vulcan-like utility-maximizing rationalists, but human beings--a heresy in orthodox economics. At the time, Obama was looking into his views for economic advice.

What Panama’s Recognition of China Means for America’s Backyard

I am sharing a new piece of my work, in interview format, regarding Panama’s recognition of the People’s Republic of China.  It is available through World Politics Review, whose journalist, Omar Rahman, did the interview with me:

Two Banking Conferences

Two Banking Conferences Last week I split my time between two conferences focused on banking and FinTech: two very different worlds that have more common than not, as this series of quotes show.

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