Kaushik Basu

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  • TOPSHOT – Former US President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a big and a small box of tic-tac to illustrate inflation outcome during a town hall event at Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona, on June 6, 2024. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)Commentary

    Here’s why the gap between Americans’ perception of U.S. economic performance and reality has doubled since 2019, according to economists

    By Kaushik Basu and Robert Lynch
  • Delegates speaks in front of the sign of the World Health Organization (WH) prior to the opening day of it annual assembly attended by government ministers and hundred of delegates, on May 21, 2012 at the United Nations office in Geneva. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo credit should read FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)Commentary

    The most important meeting yet for global pandemic response—and drugmakers

    By Nicole Hassoun and Kaushik Basu