Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro recently announced that his government and the state-run oil company PDVSA will need to “restructure...

Last August, Tarek Amer, the polished head of the Central Bank of Egypt, received the IMF’s MENA Central Banker of the Year award. And he...

For the last three decades, anti-debt polemics have been the cause célèbre of self-styled “fiscal conservatives.” Over the course of...

In March, the Republic of Georgia took a considerable step forward on the road to full membership in the European Union. The country...

On his deathbed, Oscar Wilde is reputed to have quipped, “I am dying as I have lived — beyond my means.” This sense of gallows humor is...

It’s hard to get a straight answer on the Affordable Care Act. Conversation on every component of the law is hugely partisan;...

Brown Political Review’s Sarah Sachs sat down with Visiting Associate Professor of Economics Ahmed Rahman to discuss his research on...

In light of this month’s budget and debt ceiling fiascos, a recent event hosted by Brown’s Common Sense Action (and co-sponsored by yours...

The BPR Media Team explores myths about U.S. debt via stop-motion animation. #debtceiling #debt #Congress #senate #HouseofRepresentatives

Stanley Druckenmiller and Geoffrey Canada are speaking. The event is being put on by Common Sense Action Brown University, and...

So much has been written recently about America’s 113th Congress. More specifically, so much has been written about a government...

Sequestration – the series of automatic spending cuts that went into effect March 1 – came not with a bang but a whimper. The Obama...

RI State House (photo by author) Last weekend, I attended the Rhode Island Fiscal Summit, sponsored by a Brown student group called...

House Republicans signaled they will vote on a three-month hike to the nation’s debt ceiling sometime this week. For those still curious,...

Editor’s Note: The following guest column comes to us from Graham Sheridan, master of public affairs candidate at Brown University’s...

My tour of European austerity’s next stop is Germany. However, I have criticized austerity without putting it into context. I have simply...

“The first thing the government does in an election year,” former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou admitted in 2009, “is to...