Select Recent Commentaries

• CNN with Christine Romans, July 25, 2023 The Federal Reserve and the Economy https://twitter.com/EarlyStart/status/1683782458238541824
• “China’s Housing Markets Have Plenty of Space But Not Enough Buyers” by Stella Yifan Xie, Wall Street Journal April 3, 2023 (See Rogoff and Yang, A Tale of Tier Three Cities) https://scholar.harvard.edu/rogoff/publications/tale-tier-3-cities
• "The Banking Crisis is a Worldwide Phenomenon" Yahoo Finance, March 23, 2023
• "Fed Raises Interest Rates Again in Wake of Bank Failures" PBS Newshour, March 22, 2023
• "The Global Economy is at a Turning Point" la Repubblica (Italy), March 20, 2023
• "Risk of Banking Contagion" National Public Radio, The World, March 20, 2023
• "Things are Only Getting Harder for the Fed" The Financial Times, March 18, 2023
• "Inflation" The Problem with Jon Stewart, March 17, 2023
• "Contagion and Fallout Risk" CNBC Squawkbox, March 17, 2023
• "Global Banking Turmoil" CNBC-18 India, March 17, 2023
• "How Credit Suisse Reached a Crisis Point" Canadian Broadcasting Company" March 17, 2023
• "Inflation" BBC Newsnight, February 21, 2023
• "How Far Will Interest Rates Rise" Bloomberg, February 14, 2023
• "Fed Hikes Rates at a Slower Pace" CNBC Squawkbox, February 2, 2023
• "Inflation" Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 20, 2023
• “China Tier 3 Cities are Overbuilt” Der Zeit (Germany), January 20 2023
• "Global Risks" Handelsblatt (Germany), January 18, 2023
• "The Global Economy" NPR Interview January 18, 2023
• "Risks to the Global Economy" Bloomerg Interview, January 17, 2023
• "The Global Economy" Agenda (Sweden), January 15, 2023
• "Harvard Professor Ken Rogoff on Inflation and the Economy", CNN with Christine Romans, December 6, 2022
• Project Syndicate internationally syndicated column, Recurring Monthly
• VoxEU, "Was the Post-Global Financial Crisis Collapse in Real Interest Rates Secular?" (Kenneth Rogoff, Barbara Rossi, and Paul Schmelzing) October 24, 2022
• "How the Strong Dollar is Hurting the Global Economy", Kenneth Rogoff, Jean Claude Trichest, NPR on Point October 20, 2022
• "Kenneth Rogoff, Is This Time Different", October 7, 2022
• VoxEU, "A Tale of Tier 3 Cities in China",October 4, 2022
• Early Start with Christine Romans and Laura Jarrett, CNN July 27. 2022 
• CNN with Christine Romans, “Kenneth Rogoff on Abe and Abenomics and Risk of Recession,” July 8, 2022.
• Stern Magazine (Germany), “The Worst is Yet to Come.” June 8, 2022  PDF (German)
• BBC World Service, “Beyond the Cost of Living Crisis,” July 7, 2022
• Mornings with Maria Bartiromo (Fox Business) “The Fed May Overshoot,” July 6, 2022
• Fox Business with Maria Bartiromo, April 28, 2022
• CNN, “Russia’s War on Ukraine,” April 7, 2022
• VoxEU, "A Blueprint for the Reconstruction of Ukraine," Becker, T, B Eichengreen, Y Gorodnichenko, S Guriev, S Johnson, T Mylovanov, K Rogoff, and B Weder di Mauro, April 7, 2022.
• Bloomberg, "Future of Crypto," April 5, 2022 (Starting Minute 11:15)
• Handelsblatt, Interview with Kenneth Rogoff on “The End to the Peace Dividend?” March 11, 2022 (PDF)
• Der Spiegel, Interview with Kenneth Rogoff, March 4, 2022 (PDF)
• NPR All Things Considered, "Sanctions Could Push Russia into Financial Crisis and Recession," March 3, 2022
• Harvard Gazette, "How Invasion May Hit U.S.. World Economies," February 24, 2022
• Fox Business "Harvard economist thinks inflation will stick around in 2023,” January 17, 2022
• BBC World Business Report, “Inflation,” November 23, 2021
• VoxEU, "Developing Country Debt After the Pandemic," November 3, 2021 (PDF)
• BBC Newsnight, “China’s Real Estate Problems:  A Risk to the Global Economy?” October 22, 2021  
• VoxEU, "China's Growing Vulnerability to a Slowdown in Real Estate Production,"  September 21, 2021 (PDF)
• The Nikkei, August 8, 2021 (Japanese) (English)
• Bloomberg, “The Future of Crypto Regulation and Central Bank Digital Currencies," July 23, 2021
• BBC Hardtalk, “If We Ignore Global Inequality, We will Regret It,"  April 6, 2021 (Full Broadcast)
• Econofact  March 22 2021 “The Past, Present and Future of Money,” Podcast
• Handelsblatt, “Interview with Kenneth Rogoff” January 11, 2021 (PDF)
• PBS Newshour, "How long can we expect the US catastrophe to endure,"” July 30, 2020
• NPR, On point, "Coronavirus Economy,"  July 30, 2020
• Princeton Bendheim Seminar "Global Sovereign Debt and the Dollar Post-Covid,"  (moderated by Markus Brunnermeier) June 12, 20202
• Review of Deaths of Despair by Anne Case and Angus Deaton, Finance and Development, June 1, 2020
• Bloomberg Markets Magazine, May 18, 2020
• CNBC, April, 29 2020
• VoxEU, "Negative Interest Rate Policy in the post COVID-19 World"  (With Matthew Lilley), April 17, 2020
• NPR, “Here and there,” April 16, 2020
• CBS Sunday Morning, "Understanding the Record Jobless Nubers," April 5, 2020
• Wall Street Journal, "The Coronavirus Debt Threat," March 27, 2020
• PBS Newshour,"Economist Ken Rogoff on whether the U.S. has ever experienced a crisis like this one", March 19, 2020
• Fox Business, "Mornings with Maria," March 5, 2020
• Der Spiegel, "Kompletter Unfug," (PDF) January, 18, 2020

Select Older Commentaries

• WBG, "Discussion with World Bank President David Malpass on book release Global Waves of Debt," December 19, 2019
• First Move with Julia Chatterley. “The Coming Chinese Central Bank Digital Currency,”  CNN International. November 27, 2019 
• CNN, CNN, August 18, 2019
• Bloomberg TV, “Harvard's Rogoff Makes the Case for Negative Interest Rates,” Bloomberg TV, May 6, 2019
• Mornings with Maria, Fox Business, April 26, 2019
• All Things Considered, NPR, February 18, 2019 
• Never Mind the Debt: if There’s a Hard Brexit Britain Will Have to Splash the Cash, The Sunday Times, (PDF) Februrary 3, 2019
• Kenneth Rogoff Wrote the Book on Getting Rid of Paper Money,Quartz, (PDF) November 26, 2018
• The Toll of America’s Obesity, The New York Times, (PDF) August 10, 2018
• Former IMF Economist on Volatile Market, Interest Rates, CBS This Morning, February 9, 2018
• Rogoff on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies and the Curse of Cash, Der Spiegel, January 2018
• Should We Move to a Mostly Cashless Society? Wall Street Journal, September 25, 2017 (PDF)
• What on Earth Was India Thinking when It Banned the $7.50 Bill? PBS Newshour, September 4, 2017
• The Case for a Less-Cash Society, Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, December 27, 2017
• Too Much Is Never Enough, American Public Media, Marketplace (interview starts at minute 17:20) August 1, 2017
• Why Are We Still Using Cash? Radio interview with Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics, March 16, 2017
• What Can India Teach Us about Abolishing High-Value Currency? NPR All Things Considered, February 9, 2017
• History Will Judge Obama as a Great President, NPR All Things Considered, January 17, 2017 (Transcript)
• Should We Trash Cash? Book Review by John Lanchester, The New Times Magazine, January 10, 2017 (PDF)
• India Takes a Big Step Back from Cash, Story by Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, November 29, 2016 (PDF)
• Ken Rogoff Makes Case for Scrapping $100 Bills—And Even $20 Bills, CNBC Squawk Box, September 6, 2016
• The Curse of Cash Makes Case for a World without Paper Money, NPR: All Things Considered, September 1, 2016
• The Sinister Side of Cash, Wall Street Journal Weekend Review, August 27, 2016 (PDF)
• The Economic Risks of an Outbreak of Brexit-style Votes, Financial Times, July 1, 2016 (PDF)
• Britain's Democratic Failure, Boston Globe, June 24, 2016 (PDF)
• Paper Money Is Unfit for a World of High Crime and Low Inflation, Financial Times, May 28, 2014 (PDF)
• Three Wrongs Do Not Make A Right, Financial Times, October 7, 2013 (PDF)
• Britain Should Not Take Its Credit Status for Granted, Financial Times, October 3, 2013 (PDF)
• FAQ on Herndon, Ash, and Pollin's Critique, October 1, 2013, updated with 2015 Addendum (PDF)
• Reinhart and Rogoff: Select Interviews, Op-Eds, and Media on Financial Crisis, May 1, 2013
• Ken Rogoff on the US and Global Economy, PBS, The Charlie Rose Show, December 18, 2012.  See also excerpted interview in Business Week
• Is the Current Slow Growth Due to Technological Stagnation?, Debate with Gary Kasparov and Peter Theil, Oxford University, November 9, 2012
• Obamanomics: A Counterhistory (PDF), New York Times, by David Leonhardt, September 30, 2012 
• Solving the Financial Crisis: A Game of Chess, CNN, Your Bottom Line,  August 18, 2012
• Eurozone's Possible 'Lehman Moment': What it Means for U.S.,  PBS Newshour, May 24, 2012 
• Greece's Debt May have Massive Ripple Effect, NPR, All Things Considered, May 8, 2012
• China - Consumer Spending - The Future of the Economy, CNBC, Squawkbox with Guest Host Kenneth Rogoff,  March 9, 2012
• Lunch with the FT: Kenneth Rogoff (pdf), Financial Times, February 4, 2012 
• It Is Not Just Greece.  It's a Much Deeper Problem, BBC, Today, November 3, 2011 
• Does the Economy Need a Little Inflation, NPR, Morning Edition, October 7, 2011 
• The I Word (PDF), Boston Globe, August 28, 2011
• Watch GPS: How to Fix the US Economy with Paul Krugman and Kenneth Rogoff, Global Public Square August 12, 2011
• Win Together or Lose Together, New York Times, August 7, 2011
• They Did Their Homework (800 Years of It) (PDF), New York Times, by Catherine Rampell, July 4, 2010
• Charlie Rose with Kenneth Rogoff on This Time Is Different, PBS, The Charlie Rose Show, November 10, 2009
• Arrogance and Ignorance Recurring in Economic History (video), (podcast), (full program, Solmon report begins 27:26), PBS, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Paul Solmon reports, November 2, 2009

Sundry

American Economic Association Meetings, Discussion of Deaths of Despair, San Diego January 4, 2020