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Clive Crook

Clive Crook

Columnist and Editor at Bloomberg Opinion

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Recent Articles

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Congratulations: The Shutdown Left Health Care’s Mess Intact

The strangest thing about the recent shutdown fight in Congress is that a quarrel ostensibly about health-care subsidies failed to stir any real debate about health-care reform. Washington prefers not to open that can of worms. The fact remains, this system’s defects weren’t just the proximate cause of the past month’s paralysis. They also help drive the country’s deeper political and fiscal dysfunction.
22 days ago
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The Fed’s Wait-and-See Approach to AI Can’t Last

Financial markets are obsessed with AI, and the broader public is aware of its looming impact on jobs and wages. Yet for the Federal Reserve, the concern has barely registered. This isn’t because its policymakers think AI doesn’t matter. It’s because they have no idea how its potentially vast repercussions will play out — and no good tools for shaping the outcome.
about 1 month ago
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Is the Fed’s Inflation Target Still 2%?

The Federal Reserve’s policymakers ought to ask why, with inflation stuck at 3%, investors have so confidently priced in at least two further interest-rate cuts starting today.
about 1 month ago
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Does the World Economy Even Know There’s a Trade War?

Back in April, President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs seemed to portend the end of global trade as we know it. Enormous damage to the US and its partners was sure to follow. Half a year on, the overthrow of the prevailing multilateral order is an established fact, and the president’s appetite for further upheaval looks undiminished.
about 1 month ago
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The Natural Rate of Interest Foretells America’s Fiscal Doom

The idea of a “neutral” or “natural” rate of interest looms over discussions of US monetary policy. Whether it’s any help in setting the course of monetary policy is questionable. Yet there’s no doubt it belongs at the center of a different, equally important discussion — on the sustainability of public debt. In that context, it gets far too little attention.
about 1 month ago
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Waiting for Deregulation Is Like ‘Waiting for Godot’

Growth and innovation are back in fashion. This year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in economics, awarded to three leading scholars of “creative destruction,” makes it official. No less notably, in the US, the post-neoliberal center-left has lately adopted the neoliberal preference for deregulation in pursuit of progress. Abundance is all the rage.
about 2 months ago
bloomberg.com

US Politicians Need to Bone Up on Immigration Economics

The economics of immigration has a lot in common with the economics of trade. Lower barriers to imports raise growth and living standards in the aggregate — but harm particular people and places. Lower barriers to immigration do the same. Politicians struggle to understand this trade-off, let alone manage it wisely.
about 2 months ago
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The Fed Needs to Keep It Simple

A less complicated approach to explaining the Federal Reserve’s policy decisions would make it more credible.
2 months ago
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The Hyundai Plant ICE Raid Proves Immigration Laws Need Fixing

If the US still wants to attract the best and brightest, it needs to focus less on blind enforcement.
3 months ago
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Resistance Isn’t a Real Strategy for the Democrats

Resisting the Trump administration doesn’t relieve the party of its need to acknowledge its mistakes and advance a coherent policy program.
4 months ago
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On Economic Policy, the White House Is Its Own Worst Enemy

Voters may still trust Republicans more than Democrats on the issues, but their net disapproval of the administration’s initiatives points to a larger political problem.
4 months ago
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Trade Deal ‘Losers’ Have Economics on Their Side

The European Union and Japan should take heart: The advantages of “defeat” in trade policy are often underrated.
4 months ago
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The US Can Survive Tariffs. That Doesn’t Mean They’re Worth It.

Slower growth and persistent underperformance won’t kill the economy, but they don’t amount to a win.
4 months ago
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Is the Dollar’s Era of Exorbitant Privilege Ending?

The Trump administration wants a less globalized economy and a still-preeminent dollar. Getting both won’t be easy.
5 months ago
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The Independent Federal Reserve Is on Death Row

Disempowering the Fed just as concerns mount about tariff-driven inflation and surging public debt threatens a perfect economic storm.
5 months ago
bloomberg.com

America’s Immigration Mess Shows It Failing as a Nation of Laws

Republicans are weaponizing a flawed legal system that Democrats are in turn undermining in word and deed. The consequences for justice are corrosive and far-reaching.
6 months ago
bloomberg.com

Trump’s Tariffs Are Likely to Outlast Him

To a nation staggering under debt, tariff revenue may come to look like a less politically painful fix than higher income taxes and limits on Social Security payments.
6 months ago
bloomberg.com

The US Is About to Discover if Deficits Don’t Matter

Republicans have embraced former Vice President Dick Cheney’s 2002 dictum that deficits don’t matter. US investors may be about to disagree.
6 months ago
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The EU Is in a Trade War But Can’t Fight Back

The bloc’s only course is to conciliate, limit the economic damage and quietly develop channels of international cooperation that don’t rely on US leadership.
7 months ago
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How Trump Could Champion Fair Trade — and Save the WTO

What could be bolder than correcting injustice by repairing a broken pillar of the global economy?
7 months ago
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America’s China Policy Is Dangerous and Self-Defeating

Economic power and collective security go hand in hand. Donald Trump is undermining both.
8 months ago