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Video Appearances - 2000-2025 - White House, 1997-98 - (on C-Span). - The Economics of Everything - Son, Evan, interviewing me in a series of 1-min. clips. starting Nov. 2025. On Trump 2: " US Labor Slowdown Hits Tax Base for Debt," Chosun Daily, Jan 8...

" Finance Goes to Hollywood," the Korea Herald , August 26, 2024. "Why are stocks, gold, and the dollar surging?" the Guardian, July 25, 2024. "Fifty Years of Floating," Korea Herald, March 22, 2023. " ESG investing versus those who would ban it," Project...

Double Dip watch, 2011: " Recession Gatekeepers: How a Economic Downturn is Determined," ABC News, Sept. 26, 2011. " Odds of U.S. Recession Seen Rising by Academic Panel Majority," Bloomberg, Aug 3, 2011. Recovery watch, 2010: " The Recession is Over,"...

Double Dip watch, 2011: " Recession Gatekeepers: How a Economic Downturn is Determined," ABC News, Sept. 26, 2011. " Odds of U.S. Recession Seen Rising by Academic Panel Majority," Bloomberg, Aug 3, 2011. Recovery watch, 2010: " The Recession is Over,"...

Korea Herald, Dec. 2, 2025. " Elon Musk’s $2 Trillion Fiscal Fantasy," Project Syndicate. " Trump’s tax cuts and Musk’s Doge show they have no idea about US debt," the Guardian, Nov. 21, 2024. "Will fiscal stimulus overheat the US economy?" slides, for...

" Make America Sick Again ," August 28, 2025. " Are Vaccine Mandates Government Overreach?" Project Syndicate, January 25,. " Are Vaccination Mandates Too Much?" ASEAN Post, Jan. 26, 2022. “ G20 must prioritise global Covid action at October meeting,” The...

The central claim: Real interest rates are an important influence on real prices of oil, minerals, and agricultural commodities. The argument is summarized briefly in: And in "The Impact of Monetary Policy on Commodity Prices," Monetary Policy Review...

" China is Still #2," Project Syndicate, May 5. Expanded as " China is Not Yet #1," VoxEU, May 19, 2014. " Will the Yuan Challenge the Dollar as Top International Currency?" CERK International Conference, SungKyunKwan University, May 22, 2014. "...

Jeffrey Frankel is James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University's Kennedy School. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served at the US President's Council of Economic Advisers in...