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GM38: Debt, Stagnation and Policy Responses ft. Barry Eichengreen

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The Future of the Euro

The Euro is clearly here to stay, but that is different from saying it will become a first-class international currency. I was temporarily hopeful in 2020 that Europe had experienced its Hamiltonian moment and it was going to issue more high quality European Union debt. It did agree to issue 850 billion euros worth of EU bonds in response to COVID. But where was the joint and several issuance in response to the energy crisis and the war in Ukraine and so forth?I fear that what happened in 2020 may have been a one-off. There isn't much high quality Euro liquidity to go around for the global economy.

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