Why Trump tariffs will be ‘very bad for America and for the world’ If enacted tariffs will increase inflation, slow economic growth, and result in US consumers footing the bill The Guardian - US · Jan 31, 2025
Economists and policy experts warn Reeves against City deregulation Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz among 50 signatories of statement that points to risks to Labour’s wider aims The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2024
Dozens of Nobel Prize Winners Break Silence to Endorse Kamala Harris, Sound Alarm on Trump: This Is a 'Wake-Up Call for People' More than 80 Nobel Prize winners banded together to endorse Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in an open letter. Latin Times · Oct 25, 2024
Nobel prize winners endorse Harris and warn Trump would endanger future of science Open letter by 82 laureates commends Harris and calls Trump a potential threat to progress on climate crisis The Guardian - US · Oct 25, 2024
A ‘superficial’ and ‘misguided’ version of freedom has captured the American right. Joseph Stiglitz considers the alternatives “Freedom is a core human value,” writes Joseph Stiglitz in his new book The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society. “But many of freedom’s advocates seldom ask what the idea really means. Freedom for whom? What happens when one person’s freedom comes at the expense of another’s?” The Conversation · Sep 15, 2024
Is Australia ‘giving away’ its natural resources? Speaking on ABC’s QA on Monday night, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz claimed Australia was “giving away its natural resources”, something he found “mind-boggling”. The Conversation · Aug 14, 2024
16 Nobel-Prize Economists Say 'Joe Biden's Economic Agenda Is Vastly Superior to Donald Trump' The Nobel laureates think former President Donald Trump's re-election will reignite inflation and have a destabilising effect on the US economy. International Business Times UK · Jul 2, 2024
16 Nobel Prize-Winning Economists Warn Trump's Second Term Would Fuel Inflation Experts from Wall Street and economic analysts predict Trump's measures could lead to a resurgence of inflation, which has only recently shown signs of cooling. International Business Times · Jun 26, 2024
Nobel prize economists warn a Trump win will lead to even higher inflation The former president’s potential economic policies could have the reverse effect many Americans hope for in a presidency The Independent UK · Jun 25, 2024
Stiglitz's The Road to Freedom Under Scrutiny Joseph Stiglitz thinks redistribution and regulation are the road to freedom—he’s wrong. Reason · Jun 9, 2024
Nobel laureate Joe Stiglitz on the ‘myth’ of the American Dream, the economic noose hanging around Gen Z’s neck—and what business leaders really think about Donald Trump The economist says the Columbia-led protests definitely hit home and he still believes in something besides “freedom for the wolves and death for the sheep.” Fortune · May 26, 2024
The Road to Freedom by Joseph E Stiglitz review – a vision of progressive capitalism seems too little, too late The Nobel-winning US economist’s championing of government intervention to nullify neoliberal excesses is ardently expressed but unconvincing The Guardian - UK · May 12, 2024
‘I wanted to save the world!’: Grace Blakeley, TikTok’s answer to Tony Benn The millennial economist talks to Sam Leith about the perils of global capitalism, fighting her corner online and having a ‘midlife crisis’ at 29 The Guardian - UK · Mar 9, 2024
Did Central Banks Break Inflation? Some Economists Have Doubts Central bankers who orchestrated the wave of interest rate hikes over the past two years, hoping to avoid a painful inflationary spiral, are now facing an uncomfortable question: Were their moves helpful? International Business Times · Jan 24, 2024
The Guardian - AU · Jan 12, 2024 What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis The soldier who escaped from Azovstal – after it fell to the Russians; the argument for seizing Russian funds
The Guardian - UK · Oct 22, 2023 EU-funded report calls for wealth of super-rich to be taxed, not income Wealthiest 3,000 working on ‘edge of legality’ using shell companies to funnel dividends and own property to avoid income tax, says study
The Guardian - UK · Oct 15, 2023 Rich nations, the IMF and World Bank are worried about the Israel-Hamas war, but not nearly enough Just like the Yom Kippur war 50 years before, the current conflict represents a grave threat to an already fragile global economy
The Guardian - UK · Oct 13, 2023 IMF should give poor countries $300bn a year to fight climate crisis, says Joseph Stiglitz Developing nations need equivalent of US Inflation Reduction Act, says Nobel prize-winning economist
Reason · Aug 9, 2023 Was the Radical Left Correct About the IMF and World Bank? Alex Gladstein on how "monetary colonialism" has crippled the Third World
Radio France Internationale · Mar 18, 2023 SVB collapse proves global financial system needs rethink, says Nobel economist After Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, shaking world markets, Nobel economics prize winner Joseph Stiglitz says US authorities "did the right thing" by providing federal money to protect deposits. But the economist also says the financial system needs a rethink to properly bring it into the digital era.
Al Jazeera · Mar 15, 2023 Why Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse put the spotlight on Trump The 2018 partial rollback of US’s Dodd-Frank is under renewed scrutiny following the failure of California-based lender.
The Guardian - UK · Jan 22, 2023 Joseph Stiglitz: tax high earners at 70% to tackle widening inequality Nobel prize-winning economist calls for new top rate of income tax and 2-3% wealth tax on fortunes
Reuters · Aug 10, 2022 International economists ask Biden to release Afghan central bank funds More than 70 economists and experts, including Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, called for Washington and other nations to release Afghanistan's central bank assets in a letter sent to U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday.
ABC News · Aug 7, 2022 In New Zealand wages are growing. Will Australian workers' pay packets get a bump? There are hints that wages are going up — helping workers meet the cost of soaring inflation for food, fuel and essentials. But you might have to quit your job to get a raise.