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Passive-aggressive investing

November 2, 2016 by rgrossman

Read my latest Oxford University Press blog post on the rise of index investing.

Categories financial regulation Tags active investing, active management, Burton Malkiel, index investing, John Bogle, passive investing, Random Walk Down Wall Street, Vanguard Group

One concerned economist

October 5, 2016 by rgrossman

Read my latest OUP blog post about the economists who cannot bring themselves to endorse Donald Trump but still took the trouble to condemn the economic policies of Hillary Clinton.

Categories Economic policy Tags China, Donald Trump, Economists Concerned by Hillary Clinton’s Economic Agenda, Mexico, National Association of Business Economists, trade war

Hamilton the central banker

September 7, 2016 by rgrossman

Read my latest OUP blog post about Alexander Hamilton as the father of American central banking.

Categories Economic policy, monetary policy Tags Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, Bank of the United States, Bank War, central banking, John Quincy Adams, John Tyler, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Nicholas Biddle, Second Bank of the United States

Young, scrappy, and hungry

August 3, 2016 by rgrossman

  Read my latest OUP blog post on Alexander Hamilton, the founding of the US public debt, and how Donald Trump could ruin the public credit of the United States. Someone ought to write a musical about it!

Categories government budget Tags Alexander Hamilton, debt-to-GDP ratio, Donald Trump, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ted Cruz, U.S. national debt

Free Trade, the Republicans, and Donald Trump

July 6, 2016 by rgrossman

Read my latest OUP blog post about Donald Trump’s reversal of the Republican Party’s stance on free trade–and a parallel reversal in Britain 160 years ago.

Categories Economic policy Tags Conservative Party, Corn Laws, Donald Trump, free trade, GATT, Irish Famine, John Russell, Lindsay Graham, Republican Party, Robert Peel, WTO

Banking crises

July 5, 2016 by rgrossman

Read my post on the Oxford Business Law Blog on “banking crises,” which presents a brief summary of my chapter by the same name in The Oxford Handbook of Banking and Financial History, which I co-edited with Youssef Cassis and Catherine Schenk.

Categories Financial Crisis, financial regulation, Unsettled Account

Now available in the UK

June 3, 2016 by rgrossman

The Oxford Handbook of Banking and Financial History, which I co-edited with Youssef Cassis and Catherine Schenk, has just been published in the UK by Oxford University Press.  It is available for purchase on Amazon.co.uk. As long as you are surfing Amazon, you might as well buy copies of WRONG and Unsettled Account too.

Categories Unsettled Account, WRONG Tags Amazon.co.uk, Catherine Schenk, Oxford University Press, Yousef Cassis

Sanders’ contradiction on trade and immigration

June 1, 2016 by rgrossman

Read my latest Oxford University Press blog post, which suggests that Bernie Sanders’ views on immigration and trade are not so different from those of Donald Trump.

Categories Economic policy Tags Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, immigration, international trade

The perils of Brexit

May 5, 2016 by rgrossman

Read my latest Oxford University Press blog post on the overwhelming case against Britain leaving the European Union.

Categories Economic policy Tags Brexit, David Cameron, Donald Trump, European Union, Mark Carney

The Wrong Stuff

April 13, 2016 by rgrossman

Read my latest Oxford University Press blog post on how a well-earned lack of trust in our policy makers undermines the economy.

Categories Economic policy, WRONG Tags Bernie Sanders, China, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Donald Trump, Golden Dawn, Gordon Cooper, Jeb Bush, Jeremy Corbyn, Libor, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, The Right Stuff, trust
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