Kenneth Rogoff

Harvard

Kenneth Rogoff appears in the following:

Examining Obama's Economic Legacy

Friday, January 06, 2017

Is it safe to say that Obama’s finest achievement in office was stopping the Great Recession from turning into another Great Depression?

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Economist Claims U.S. Economic Recovery Best Yet

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

While most economists are still arguing about why our economy still has such a long way to go, Kenneth Rogoff, a professor of economics and public policy at Harvard University and for...

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European Elections Highlight Discontent

Monday, May 07, 2012

France wasn't the only European country to hold elections yesterday, but the feeling across the continent was certainly one of change. From local elections in Italy to a tight presidential race in Serbia, competitions outside of France told equally interesting stories about changing attitudes toward life in the Euro-zone. Andrew Walker is a correspondent for our partner the BBC, and Ken Rogoff is former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund.

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Debt Ceiling: What if America Defaulted?

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

It’s only been a few days since lawmakers in Washington agreed on a budget for the next fiscal year, but Democrats and Republicans are already gearing up for the next big budgetary showdown: raising the nation's debt ceiling. In the coming months, Congress will have vote on whether to raise the debt ceiling, something Tea Party Republicans say they won't support in hopes of forcing President Obama and Congress to cut spending. But for every dollar the government spends, it has to borrow forty cents. In February, Fed Chair Ben Bernanke said that the economic results of not raising the debt ceiling and defaulting would be "catastrophic" 

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This Time Is Different

Friday, September 10, 2010

Kenneth Rogoff, a Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and professor of economics at Harvard University, looks at the current recession in context of centuries of financial meltdowns. This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, written with Carmen Reinhart, shows that throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing—and recovering—their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises.

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Greek Debt Crisis Sends Ripples Through Euro Zone

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Greek's debt crisis has the European Union worrying about a possible domino effect. Spain and Portugal have already seen their credit ratings downgraded, and Ireland and Italy may be next. Some fear that Greece's crisis may deal such a sharp blow to confidence in the global credit market that we see a repeat of the global financial crisis.

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