Barry Eichengreen warns that opacity prevails in the private debt markets that investors and policymakers need to watch.

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, ...

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 ...

There's a fascinating interview with Barry Eichengreen here at The European. It covers a multitude of subjects and is well worth reading in full. There's two points that I'd like to draw attention to, ...

Barry Eichengreen, professor of economics and political science at University of California, Berkeley, discusses trade tensions between the U.S. and China. Got a confidential news tip? We want to hear ...

In the seventh episode of our series on the Asian financial crisis, we spoke with Barry Eichengreen, a professor of economics and political science at UC Berkeley. He’s written extensively about the ...

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 ...