About the Author
Desmond Lachman
Desmond Lachman is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He was formerly a Deputy Director in the International Monetary Fund’s Policy Development and Review Department and the chief emerging market economic strategist at Salomon Smith Barney.
- The Economic Consequences of Jerome Powell
- Farewell to Easy European Money
- The IMF’s Return to Center Stage
- Italy Has Been Swimming Naked
- The National Debt Does Matter
- The Year of the Strong Dollar
- Europe’s Dark Cloud Over the World Economy
- Ignore Hyman Minsky at Your Peril
- Preparing for the Next Economic Recession
- Germany’s Economic Doom Loop
- The Pound’s Wakeup Call for Boris
- Sleepwalking Toward a Currency War?
- Christine Lagarde’s Forthcoming Baptism by Fire
- Trouble Ahead for the Global Economy
- Italy Could Be Greece on Steroids
- Ignore Global Economic Risks at Your Peril
- Markets Are Asleep at the Wheel
- The Submerging Market Economies
- Gathering European Economic Storm Clouds
- Trump’s Automobile Tariff Folly
- Brexit Matters to the U.S.
- A Currency Straitjacket for China
- Italy’s Threat to the Global Economy
- How Severe Will the Next Recession Be?
- Economic Policymakers Ignore Risks at Their Peril
- Sleepwalking Toward a World Trade War
- Italy’s Threat to the Euro
- It Is Italy’s Economic Growth, Stupid
- Emerging Market Meltdown Is More Than a Tantrum
- Italy’s Debt Is Worse Than You Think
- Playing With Emerging Market Economic Fire
- Fault Lines in the Global Economy
- China’s Exchange Rate Dilemma
- Ignore Emerging Market Economies at Your Peril
- A Trade War Would Affect Our Economy
- It Is Italy’s Economic Growth, Stupid
- Argentine Echoes of the Asian Financial Crisis
- Jerome Powell and the Emerging Markets
- The Economic Consequences of Donald Trump
- Is a Trade War Really Worth the Candle?
- China and the U.S. Twin Deficits
- Behind the Curve at the Federal Reserve
- The Return of the Euro Crisis Foretold
- The Never-Ending Boom-Bust Cycle
- The Fed Ignores Inflation at Its Peril
- Time for a Monetary Policy Rethink
- The Jury Is Still Out on Trumponomics
- Point: Increase the Public Debt at Your Peril
- This Time Is Not Different
- Point: Puerto Rican Statehood Is No Silver Bullet
- The Dollar’s Trump Slump
- Iraqi Turkeys in the Market
- Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds
- Trump Ignores the Global Economy at His Peril
- Europe’s Year of Living Dangerously
- Does the U.S. Really Need a Fiscal Stimulus?
- A Time for U.S. World Economic Leadership
- Brexit’s Long Shadow Over the U.S. Election