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Barry Eichengreen

Mint columnist

Barry Eichengreen is professor of economics and political science at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author, most recently, of ‘In Defense of Public Debt’

ARTICLES BY BARRY EICHENGREEN

Kevin Warsh may be remembered as a key protector of central-bank independence. (REUTERS)

Barry Eichengreen: Will the US Fed stay independent under Kevin Warsh?

4 min read . 15 Feb 2026

If US President Donald Trump and European leaders agree on anything anymore, it may be that China’s trade surpluses are a problem. (AFP)

Eichengreen: Global imbalances are back in focus—Look within to solve them

2 min read . 18 Jan 2026

In the case of Argentina, it was a mistake for the Trump administration to make an unconditional commitment. (AFP)

Barry Eichengreen: How Trump’s policy gambles backfired in China and Argentina

4 min read . 17 Nov 2025

The GENIUS Act signed into law by President Donald Trump in July promises to let a thousand stablecoins bloom. (istockphoto)

Barry Eichengreen: Can stablecoins help perpetuate the dollar’s dominance?

4 min read . 22 Oct 2025

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell gestures during a press conference following the issuance of the Federal Open Market Committee's statement on interest rate policy in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 30, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo (REUTERS)

Barry Eichengreen: Why did markets shrug off Trump’s war on the Fed?

4 min read . 16 Sept 2025

Something that US President Donald Trump’s trade war and Thatcher’s Falklands War have in common is their utility in distracting attention from their instigators’ domestic problems. (REUTERS)

Barry Eichengreen: Trump’s trade offensive echoes Thatcher’s Falklands War

3 min read . 14 Aug 2025

There are so many negative things to say about Trump’s Big Bad Bill that it’s hard to know where to start. (AFP)

Barry Eichengreen: Germany’s budget expansion makes sense; America’s is reckless

4 min read . 15 Jul 2025

Removing checks on presidential powers while arbitrarily exempting the Fed opens the door to arbitrarily not exempting the US central bank. (Bloomberg)

Barry Eichengreen: Is the US Federal Reserve’s independence at threat?

4 min read . 16 Jun 2025

Some lessons, once learnt, are not easily unlearnt. (AFP)

Barry Eichengreen: The end of American exceptionalism?

4 min read . 15 May 2025

The US, to all appearances, is going down the opposite path the pound sterling followed. (Bloomberg News)

Barry Eichengreen: The sterling’s past may offer clues to the dollar’s future

4 min read . 16 Apr 2025

Trump will no longer be able to blame former President Joe Biden’s administration for inflation, so he will likely blame the Fed. (AFP)

Barry Eichengreen: Trump is taking aim at the IMF, World Bank and US Fed

4 min read . 19 Mar 2025

If China closes the technology gap faster than it otherwise would have, then US export controls will have proven ineffectual or even counter-productive. (Nvidia)

Barry Eichengreen: US export curbs on high-tech enablers have rarely worked

4 min read . 17 Feb 2025

Whether doing so would enhance the competitiveness of American exports and strengthen America’s trade balance is quite another matter. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File) (AP)

Can Donald Trump really weaken the dollar to enhance US trade competitiveness?

4 min read . 16 Jan 2025

Biden’s inheritance also included a pandemic-stricken economy, creating ample scope for output and employment to bounce back.

An economic requiem for the Biden administration

6 min read . 31 Dec 2024

A crisis that prompts a wholesale rethink of the institutional inheritance could conceivably break the logjam.

Germany’s economic crisis offers it an opportunity to break an old gridlock

4 min read . 12 Dec 2024

Policymakers in emerging markets have offered a long list of possible substitutes for the dollar. None of their proposals has borne fruit.

The idea of a Brics currency is looking like a charade

1 min read . 20 Nov 2024

Some argue that European integration is driven or stymied by hard-headed bargaining among governments.

The Draghi report has rung an alarm that Europe can’t afford to sleep through

4 min read . 24 Oct 2024

Economic relations between the US and China have never been worse.

US-China relations need a reset before we all end up paying a heavy price

4 min read . 16 Sept 2024

Late last year, the US and China successfully negotiated the Sunnylands Statement affirming their commitment to work together to combat climate change. (Getty Images via AFP)

The US elections will have a big impact on the climate change fight

4 min read . 18 Aug 2024

The IMF needs to reinvigorate its analysis of the cross-border spillovers of large-country policies, a process the US has managed to squelch. (AFP)

IMF reform reality: The US and China must cooperate, willy-nilly

4 min read . 22 Jul 2024