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Clive Crook

ARTICLES BY CLIVE CROOK

Social media enabled a gush of supply that met demand for divisive talk. (AP)

MAD politics: blame social media for mutually assured dysfunction

3 min read . 12 May 2026

The right way to mark the anniversary of Adam Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations' is to celebrate not only the works but also the remarkable intellectual temperament that produced them. (Scottish National Gallery, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Clive Crook: Why Adam Smith holds economists in thrall, even if misunderstood

5 min read . 13 Mar 2026

America’s public debt is testing its limit of sustainability. (AFP)

Clive Crook: How the Iran war amplifies the risks facing the US economy

3 min read . 08 Mar 2026

For a time, dollar dominance can persist even if the US becomes less dominant in other respects. (REUTERS)

Clive Crook: Will the US dollar be dethroned? It’s no longer unthinkable

6 min read . 02 Jan 2026

Social spending increases trust but only if it’s not inflationary. (REUTERS)

Governments are losing trust but sound macro policies could win people back

3 min read . 08 Dec 2025

Perhaps the new era of US protectionism isn’t quite as transformative as the White House would have us believe. (AFP)

Here’s why Trump’s tariffs haven’t broken global trade—yet

5 min read . 24 Oct 2025

Immigration has played a big role in the economic pre-eminence of the US. (REUTERS)

Clive Crook: An America that slams its door on immigrants will hurt itself

3 min read . 08 Oct 2025

Those nabbed at the Hyundai facility were specialists the US is short of. (via REUTERS)

Clive Crook: Shackling skilled workers isn’t going to make America great

3 min read . 15 Sept 2025

The way the Fed signals and executes changes in policy is making an already difficult job harder.

Clive Crook: The Fed must fix its communication problem

5 min read . 31 Dec 2024

Trump's tax proposals include extending the soon-to-expire provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act; eliminating taxes on Social Security; and more. (REUTERS)

Trump’s economic policy ideas could deal the US economy a severe blow

3 min read . 03 Oct 2024

Bidenomics favours sustaining persistently uncompetitive industries. (Bloomberg)

Biden's industrial policy made America’s EV tariffs necessary

3 min read . 22 May 2024

Despite its strength, the US is still certain to underperform if the recent surge in trade scepticism prevails.

Missing in action: America ought to help revive and reinvent the WTO

3 min read . 26 Feb 2024

Under current law, the gap between spending and taxes will keep widening over the next decade, rising to $2.6 trillion (6.2% of GDP) by 2034.

The threat of US debt inflated away haunts the country’s fiscal outlook

3 min read . 16 Feb 2024

One of the strategies economists at the IMF devised for a “representative advanced economy” to reach net zero by 2050, relies entirely on carbon pricing. (Photo: Reuters)

We must face the true cost of our net zero goals

3 min read . 30 Nov 2023

Interest rates have trended lower in recent years, pushing the Fed’s usual policy rate closer to the zero lower bound.

Smart fiscal policy could help the US Fed do its job properly

4 min read . 01 Sept 2023

Stability-aimed regulation could also stifle banking and be counterproductive (Photo: AFP)

Safe banking is largely illusory so we must pursue it with care

3 min read . 14 May 2023

According to one study, UK exports fell by more than 20%, compared to a projection of what they would otherwise have been, in the first 15 months following the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU. (AP)

Sunak’s post-Brexit Britain is staring at a worst-case scenario

3 min read . 12 Dec 2022

Biden has been drawing even with Trump in opinion polls (Photo: AP)

Joe Biden does not appear to get why America is in trouble

3 min read . 05 Sept 2022

Would-be successors of Boris Johnson have said little about Brexit so far (Photo: AFP)

The UK’s aspiring leaders are far too quiet on Brexit’s fallout

3 min read . 24 Jul 2022

Monetary policy was always difficult and has gotten far more complex bloomberg (Bloomberg)

The US Federal Reserve’s job has become a lot less enviable

4 min read . 13 Jun 2022