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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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Cyprus Fiasco Could Undermine the Euro Zone

Oct 25, 2013

The rescue of Cyprus was a microcosm of how the nations of Europe have failed to work together to adequately address their ongoing financial crises.

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What You Can Do to Protect Yourself Against a Totally Unnecessary U.S. Government Default

Oct 14, 2013

If Congress and the White House fail to raise the debt ceiling this week and the United States defaults on its debt, what can we expect and how can we protect ourselves against these events?

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The Political Economy of the Nobel Prize, 45th edition

Oct 12, 2013

This morning, when I woke up a few hours before the Nobel announcement, I felt seriously dissatisfied. I had meant to write a post on Thomson Reuters’s prediction that Card, Angrist and Krueger may win the Nobel for their work on empirical microeconomics.