🌐 Global Economy Sep 28, 2026 · Menzie Chinn

Guest Contribution: “Oligarchy is a Symptom, Not the Cause”

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Today, we present a guest post written by Jeffrey Frankel, Harpel Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and formerly a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. A shorter version was published in Project Syndicate. 
 


September 28, 2026 — The American political system is broken.  We should ask how it got that way and should hope that the answer could contain a clue as to how it might get back on track.
Of course, many factors are at play.   The long list

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