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Change is Coming at the ECB

by Daniel Moss | Jul 19, 2017 | Opinion

The European Central Bank is wrestling with how to exit the super-accommodative policy that’s dominated Mario Draghi’s tenure as president. In trying to determine the path of this off-ramp, it might be instructive to look backward. To December of last...

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Filing Away the Qatari Crisis … Temporarily

by Salman Al-dossary | Jul 19, 2017 | Opinion

Forty-five days have passed since Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt took their measures against Qatar. A Kuwaiti mediation tried and strove to resolve the crisis, but the isolated party ensured its failure from the very beginning when it leaked...

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Maybe it will hit the mark. Photographer: Ira Block/National Geographic/Getty Images

So Many Critics of Economics Miss What It Gets Right

by Noah Smith | Jul 18, 2017 | Opinion

At this point, blanket critiques of the economics discipline have been standardized to the point where it’s pretty easy to predict how they’ll proceed. Economists will be castigated for their failure to foresee the Great Recession. Some unrealistic assumptions in...

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Boys walk past a damaged bus in the rebel held besieged Douma neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria on January 17, 2017. Photo – Reuters

Saudi Arabia and Qatar’s Dispute in Syria

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jul 18, 2017 | Opinion

The current failure in Syria is saddening and its future repercussions are dangerous. All of this comes amid the Saudi-Qatari disagreement, two partner countries in supporting the Syrian people in the face of massacres of the Syrian regime and its allies. The truth is...

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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin talks to US President Donald Trump during their bilateral meeting at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. CARLOS BARRIA/REUTERS

Putin Preferred Clinton? Let’s Test Trump’s Theory

by Leonid Bershidsky | Jul 17, 2017 | Opinion

In two recent interviews, President Donald Trump made the argument that Russian President Vladimir Putin would have preferred Hillary Clinton in the White House. Trump’s argument is that he “campaigned on strong military, strong borders, and low oil...

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An Iraqi special forces soldier waves an Iraqi flag from top of a church damaged by ISIS militants in Bartella, east of Mosul, Iraq, October 21. 2016. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

Liberation of Mosul, Return of Iraq

by Ghassan Charbel | Jul 17, 2017 | Opinion

The state of ISIS was not expected to live long. Neither Iraq can bear a cancerous tumor of this kind, nor the Kurdistan region can accept such a dangerous neighbor. The countries of the region cannot be lenient towards it. The world cannot tolerate it. Al-Baghdadi’s...