In recent years, the absolute level of government debt around the world has risen dramatically. The Covid emergency unleashed a huge wave of public-sector spending in 2020 and beyond. Meanwhile, ...

The economy is structurally exposed to currency risk for no fault of its own by a global phenomenon—dollar dominance. The international macro-economic concept of 'original sin' coined by Barry ...

Barry Eichengreen examines what's behind the rising volume - and, increasingly, the domestic vaulting - of official reserves ...

America’s $38 trillion national debt isn’t really because of bad math or budgeting, top economist Barry Eichengreen says. It isn’t because of interest rates, or an aging population, or even runaway ...

Digital currencies issued by central banks will make transactions more efficient, economist Barry Eichengreen told CNBC But he said cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ether serve as "a vehicle for ...

The NCATA’s Athlete of the Week award is calling Matthew Knight Arena home for the first time in 2026. Base/tumbler Ashlyn Parlett took... Following a slow start to the new year, No. 3 Oregon women’s ...

Barry Eichengreen, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of "Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the International Monetary System," fielded ...

This week, Project Syndicate catches up with Barry Eichengreen, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and ...

Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987. He is ...

Eichengreen provides the best summary I have seen of competing views on the sustainability of large US trade deficits, along with the impact of sustained trade deficts on US external debt and the ...