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PROFIT AND POWER
with Robinson Meyer, Melanie Brusseler, Kyle Chan, and Brett Christophers

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Very happy to release new research today about with my wonderful colleagues at JAIN FAMILY INSTITUTE: Beamer Sérgio Pinto Eduard Nilaj Jack Landry

“A First Look at Student Debt Cancellation”

Coverage here:
marketwatch.com/story/heres-wh…

'The $15.6 billion lent to Ukraine is the IMF’s seventh largest program in its history. Ukraine's interest rates could total as much as 8 percent once the war is done—another impending disaster awaiting the country.'

phenomenalworld.org/analysis/new-w…

“We live in a dysfunctional system in which money flows out of the countries that need it most and into the coffers of the wealthiest. In 2023, the private sector collected $68 billion more in interest and principal repayments than it lent…” phenomenalworld.org/analysis/new-w…

NEW Phenomenal World The Polycrisis:
'...with US spending stymied by domestic politics, a new set of global players is fronting the cash for states in need of liquidity. Something resembling a polycentric financial patchwork has slowly emerged.'
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/new-w…

Happening now.

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Today in Brazil’s Valor Econômico, an interview with Caio Sartori about the JAIN FAMILY INSTITUTE’s work in Brazil pegged to the launch of a new book with Fabio Waltenberg and the establishment of JFI’s new Brazilian entity

Check it out: valor.globo.com/valor-data/bol…

'Even measures that demonstrably hurt the targeted economy may not lead to a change in the behaviors that spurred their imposition.'

From 2023, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj and Zep Kalb on the distributional effects of sanctions in Iran.

phenomenalworld.org/analysis/iran-…

It’s the week of the World Bank/IMF spring meetings, where everyone will say that governments should “mobilize private capital” for climate and infrastructure.

Forget about if they should—*can* they? Last year I wrote about all the barriers they’ll face:
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-i…

Join us on Wednesday, April 17th at 1PM EST for a virtual panel discussion on the 2024 proxy season with Lee Harris from Financial Times, Michael O'Leary from L Catterton, Marian Macindoe from Parnassus Funds, and Jessica Whitt from Barclays Bank.

I am thrilled to see Phenomenal World becoming trilingual, with an ambitious editorial expansion into PT and ES. This is one of the finest political economy outlets of the present. A shoutout to PW for opening pathways for collaborations with, and a wider audience from, LatAm!

About to start: two panels to launch the international expansion of Phenomenal World. First up: Fernando Haddad with Adam Tooze.

Join here:

us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Bem vindos, PW! A versão em inglês faz um trabalho editorial incrível tornando acessíveis artigos de economia e economia política e criando uma rede de pensadores jovens e progressistas

We are excited to announce that PW is now available in Spanish and Portuguese!

Estamos muito animados para contar que, a partir de hoje, a PW está disponível em português e espanhol!

Con muchos ánimos compartimos que a partir de hoy, PW está disponible en español y portugués!

yes indeed. excess capacity has been the crux of the china model. in the age of naive globalization the world has eaten up that excess capacity at the expense of local employment. now that age is gone. China has to eat up the mess itself, or not?

In Phenomenal World, Sanjukta Paul discusses planning, market coordination, and the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933. (We’re not jealous, you’re jealous!)

phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-f…