Jeffrey D. Sachs's Blog, page 13

Are We Witnessing the Fall of the American Empire?

As a porn star sues President Donald Trump over a deal to keep her quiet about an alleged affair, and his White House is drained of everyone but his family, it’s hard not to think that America is entering into a period of decadence that rivals Imperial Rome in luridness. Even before the Daniels news, some historians and journalists compared Trump to famously degenerate [...]

Gary Cohn is the latest Goldman Sachs alum to ill-serve America

Published on CNN. (CNN) Most observers today, including myself, bemoan the reason that Gary Cohn is leaving the Trump White House. The President’s top economic adviser lost the trade policy battle with Trump and the protectionists around him, as the President insists he will impose tariffs on steel and aluminum — and stock markets are falling as [...]

Election manipulation? It will only get more extreme from here

Politics is a dirty business. An open question is just how much dirtier it will become. When word spread in February that little-known Amanda Renteria — a failed Central Valley congressional candidate and former aide to Hillary Clinton — had filed paperwork to run for governor without any money or campaign structure, Politico wrote a 1,100-word article that focused [...]

Mine declines: Good news for sustainability

Statistics from the General Statistics Office of Việt Nam (GSO) showed that the mining industry has posted a record slump since 2011, with the growth rate dropping by 7.1 per cent in 2017 and 4 per cent in 2016. Read the full article here.

IST Science and Society Lecture: Jeffrey D. Sachs

In his IST Science and Society Lecture, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Professor of Economics at Columbia University and Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, talked about the global growth of both economy and population hitting the limits of the resources available on earth. He also spoke about the dominance of the western economy coming [...]

Who will end global poverty?

For the second year in a row, the Trump Administration has proposed slashing U.S. development assistance programs by almost a third. Even though strong support on both sides of the U.S. Congress may prevent many – but not all – of these cuts becoming law, it is clear that the best hope for this period [...]

Only A Few States Are Meeting The Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call on the nations of the world to meet grand challenges on poverty, education, health, and the environment. Currently, many of the 50 U.S. states are falling short. The “America’s Goals Report Card” scores the states on seven SDGs, including issues like worker rights and healthcare. In most cases, the [...]

Surveillance: Trade is About Win-Win, Sachs Says

Chad Bown, Peterson Institute for International Economics Senior Fellow, & Enda Curran, Bloomberg’s Chief Asia Economics Correspondent, discuss the impact of President Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs. Marc Chandler, Brown Brothers Harriman Senior Vice President of New York & Head of Currency, says a trade war is not easy to win and it is not [...]

The Rev. Jay Lawlor Launches Faith Network for Economic Justice and Pledges Support for “America’s Goals”

The economy does not work equally or equitably for everyone. Decades of reporting on poverty, wage and wealth inequality, disparities based on race and gender, and a shrinking middle class offer ample evidence of economic distress for millions of Americans. What is important to remember is that these are not simply data points or economic [...]

May and Cameron have a terrible record on health, and it could be cutting lives short

Between them, David Cameron and Theresa May have managed to secure the worst health record of any post-war prime ministers. Life expectancy in the UK has stalled. In many places, and for more vulnerable groups, it is now falling. No other country in Europe has had such a bad record in health between the years [...]