Greg Ip
Wall Street Journal
Washington, DC, United States
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Past articles by Greg:
Why Bidenomics Gets No Love From Voters
The president’s legislative wins on infrastructure and industrial policy are overshadowed by the inflation hangover of stimulus, pandemic and war. → Read More
Biden’s Trade Challenge: Kicking the China Dependency Habit
Officials want to avoid trade deals whose rules boost China’s role in supply chains, Greg Ip writes. → Read More
Stock Market to Fed: You Haven’t Done Enough
Bullish stocks, low bond yields and a recovering housing market suggest interest rates aren’t that restrictive, frustrating the central bank’s efforts to cool inflation. → Read More
A Debt-Ceiling Deal That Doesn’t Deal With Debt
On the brink of a default, Biden and Republicans hammer out a deal that doesn’t raise taxes or address the biggest sources of spending pressure. → Read More
Why Inflation Erupted: Two Top Economists Have the Answer
A former Fed chair and former IMF chief economist say it wasn’t the pandemic or the stimulus; it was the pandemic, then the stimulus. → Read More
China Finally Has a Rival as the World’s Factory Floor
Companies are looking to find a backup for manufacturing, and India—which has a labor force and an internal market comparable in size to China’s—is making its case. → Read More
Most Nobel Laureates Develop Theories; Ben Bernanke Put His Into Practice
The former Federal Reserve chairman and two other academics developed the theoretical foundations for why banks exist and why bank panics hurt. → Read More
The Return of Inflation Makes Deficits More Dangerous
Britain’s proposed income-tax cut shows political leaders are still stuck in a prepandemic world of limitless borrowing. → Read More
The Case for a Soft Landing: How High Inflation Could End Without Recession
Dissecting one firm’s view on why inflation will fall to 2.5% without a big rise in unemployment. → Read More
America’s Gridlocked Democracy Struggles to Meet China Challenge
Shoring up semiconductor manufacturing could join the list of issues where Washington seems paralyzed. → Read More
Gas Prices Test American Appetite for New Cold War With Russia
Russia is waging two wars right now: a hot war with Ukraine whose costs are measured in death and destruction, and a cold war with the West whose costs are measured in economic hardship and inflation. → Read More
By Design, the Fed May Be Tightening Too Much
In reversal from recent decades, the central bank would rather risk recession than higher inflation. → Read More
On Inflation, Economics Has Some Explaining to Do
Economic models that worked for decades broke down during the pandemic, and alternatives have yet to emerge. → Read More
Powell’s Opinions on Inflation Matter, Not Biden’s
Unlike the 1970s, today’s Fed accepts responsibility for inflation, and the White House backs it up, writes Greg Ip. → Read More
To Draw Asia Closer, U.S. Tries an Alternative to Traditional Trade Pacts
The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework aims to align technology and supply-chain policies, but what some countries really want is access to the U.S. market. → Read More
Crypto Meltdown Exposes Hollowness of its Libertarian Promise
Unable to displace the dollar, crypto became just another asset without traditional asset markets’ guardrails. → Read More
Inflation Is Headed Lower—but Maybe Not Low Enough
While supply disruptions are subsiding, without slower demand, inflation will still be too high for the Fed’s comfort to stop raising interest rates. → Read More
The Postpandemic Normal Is Here and It Isn’t That Special
There is more behind the stock market’s downdraft than higher inflation and interest rates. It is also a sign the economy has arrived at a new postpandemic normal—and it isn’t as lucrative as investors had hoped. → Read More
Russian Gas Cutoff Symbolizes New Era of Supply Shocks and Inflation
The war in Ukraine, sanctions, export controls and natural disasters all threaten commodity supply chains. → Read More
In French Vote, Pocketbook Issues Overshadow Nationalism vs. Globalism
Marine Le Pen has softened her opposition to the European Union, but if elected she could still destabilize the bloc. → Read More