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Clive Crook

ARTICLES BY CLIVE CROOK

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

The West could offer Putin an ‘off-ramp’ option if it can’t oust him from power (Photo: AP)

A peace settlement is possible that lets all sides claim victory

3 min read . 06 Mar 2022

The US president faces a Cold War II that could recast how he wields power (Photo: Bloomberg)

The Ukraine crisis could help Biden reinvent his presidency

3 min read . 01 Mar 2022

High US inflation may have begun to knock the stuffing out of MMT (Photo: Bloomberg)

Beware the deceptive charms of modern monetary theory

3 min read . 15 Feb 2022

Public-service broadcasting has come to be seen as an anachronism istockphoto

The BBC as we know it will be dead soon... Long live the BBC

3 min read . 01 Feb 2022

Fed chair Jerome Powell asked for the word ‘transitory’ to be retired (Photo: Reuters)

The Fed’s dumped the wrong word but what about its policy?

4 min read . 02 Dec 2021