Michael Pettis

Michael Pettis is a senior fellow at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy and a finance professor at Peking University. He is also the author, with Matthew C. Klein, of the forthcoming book Trade Wars Are Class Wars.

Articles by Michael Pettis

A demonstrator holds a U.S. dollar bill burned during a protest of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 30, 2010.

Global Capital Is the Tail That Wags the U.S. Economic Dog

Argument

September 29, 2020, 7:10 PM

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Why Trade Wars Are Inevitable

Argument

October 19, 2019, 12:01 AM

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How China’s ‘Currency Manipulation’ Enhances the Global Role of the U.S. Dollar

Argument

July 22, 2016, 10:38 AM

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The Year of the Horse

Argument

December 31, 2013, 7:05 PM

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Crunch Time

Argument

June 27, 2013, 10:20 PM

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No, the Spanish Can’t Be More German

Argument

May 7, 2013, 10:22 PM

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Reform or Perish

Dispatch

November 7, 2012, 7:10 PM

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Compounding the Meltdown

Argument

December 2, 2011, 7:02 PM

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An Exorbitant Burden

Deep Dive

September 7, 2011, 9:02 PM

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Is China Turning Japanese?

Argument

August 19, 2010, 9:20 PM

Will Globalization Go Bankrupt?

Feature

November 18, 2009, 4:25 PM

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