Jeffrey Frankel, Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University, served as a member of President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers. He is a research associate at the US National Bureau of Economic Research.
At the European Central Bank’s annual research conference, Paul Krugman concluded that, when it comes to “weaponized interdependence,” the EU is more powerful than both the US and China. But his reliance on PPP-adjusted GDP as a way to smooth out the volatility of nominal exchange rates ignores the even greater swings in PPP data.
Jeffrey Frankel
October 29, 2026 at 8:21 AM IST
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