"We don't have that many trade relations with Russia, we don't get our gas from Russia. However, we do trade with people who do get gas from Russia who will have to deal with an economic slowdown," Sharyn O'Halloran comments.

“After two decades of never raising policy rates by more than 25 basis points at a time, the US Federal Reserve is now confronting macroeconomic conditions that demand more robust action,” writes Willem Buiter.

Part one in a series on the worsening spread of false information online looks at the challenge of balancing freedom of expression with targeting misinformation. Anya Schiffrin reports.

"Press accounts of dirty activities springing up in developing countries, in part to evade stricter environmental regulations in developed ones, are all too common. But previous academic research has found little systematic evidence of such pollution-haven effects between the global North and South," Eric Verhoogen co-writes.

“Russia’s dual victory plan would be to weaken and destabilise not just Ukraine, but the US as well,” writes Lincoln Mitchell.

"Biden has said repeatedly that the US is open to diplomacy with Russia, but on the issue that Moscow has most emphasised — Nato enlargement — there has been no American diplomacy at all," says Jeffrey Sachs.

Jason Bordoff and Jonathan Elkind of the Center on Global Energy Policy comment on what the hostilities with Russia might affect gas prices.

Richard Nephew has rejoined SIPA's Center on Global Energy Policy as a senior research scholar.

Jeffrey Sachs will discuss how the pandemic has increased global interdependence and whether the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are achievable at the Oxford Forum for International Development on February 26-27, 2022.

Jason Bordoff of the Center on Global Energy Policy discusses Europe's energy crisis.