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Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
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May 7, 2008
Video
Watch George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management, discuss implications of the mortgage crisis for the international economic system.
See more in Financial Crises, International Finance
May 7, 2008
Audio
Listen to George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management, discuss implications of the mortgage crisis for the international economic system.
See more in Financial Crises
May 7, 2008
Audio
Listen to Sebastian Mallaby, CFR's director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics, and deputy director of studies, discuss current trends surrounding the economics and politics of globalization, and the causes and consequences of the globalization backlash.
May 5, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Post
Of all the strange features of this presidential race, the tarnishing of Barack Obama has got to be the most ridiculous. In this Washington Post op-ed, Sebastian Mallaby writes that the Obama-Wright "revelations" are really a revelation about our political culture: About its failure to distinguish the important from the trivial and about the inevitability that the race card will eventually be played against a black candidate.
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April 21, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Post
In this Washington Post op-ed, Sebastian Mallaby argues that while the people falling behind on their mortgages do not deserve government assistance, the threat of a negative spiral in homes prices warrants federal measures to reduce foreclosures. And despite the political candidates who routinely denonuce Washington, the proposals in the House and Senate are by and large sound.
See more in Economic Development, Congress, U.S. Election 2008
April 10, 2008
Audio
Listen to Sebastian Mallaby, director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at CFR, discuss the state of the U.S. economy and its implications for the rest of the world with students as part of the CFR Academic Conference Call Series.
See more in Geoeconomics, International Finance, Trade
April 9, 2008
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
Sebastian Mallaby's update to his January/February 2007 essay "Hands Off Hedge Funds."
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April 7, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Post
In this Washington Post op-ed, Sebastian Mallaby explores the double-bubble theory of the current financial crisis—not only do we face the bursting of a real estate bubble, but we also face the bursting of a second bubble which is the product of a quarter-century expansion in borrowing, excessive confidence in the dollar and an overblown faith in markets. In order to deal with this double-bubble, Mallaby advocates two reforms: bringing complex, “over the counter” securities onto exchanges and requiring lenders to increase capital cushions during market upswings.
See more in United States, Economics
March 24, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Post
One year ago, with spectacular timing, a Wall Streeter named Richard Bookstaber published a book on financial engineering. He called it "A Demon of Our Own Design," and his argument was that a new breed of "quants" had created a system too complex to be manageable. In this Washington Post op-ed, Sebastian Mallaby agrees with Dr. Bookstaber that—in the wake of Bear Stearns—modern financial engineering has become harder to defend.
See more in United States, Corporate Governance
March 10, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Post
Watching the global economy right now is a bit like watching the lead-up to the Iraq war—the risk presented by a festering threat has to be weighed against the risk inherent in preemptive action. While it's impossible to know whether American activism or European immobility is correct because of the nature of the challenge, Sebastian Mallaby argues that the divergence in approaches on either side of the Atlantic is likely to stoke tensions.
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March 7, 2008
Podcast
CFR’s Sebastian Mallaby cautions the next U.S. president that “green tariffs” could undermine the legitimacy of the World Trade Organization.
See more in Trade, Climate Change, International Organizations
March 2, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Post
In this Washington Post op-ed, Sebastian Mallaby argues that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have pushed trade populism beyond the point at which it can be easily forgiven. Presidential primaries always seem to drive Democrats to the left—and this year's primaries have been painfully prolonged, damaging the party's credibility.
See more in United States, Trade, International Organizations, U.S. Election 2008
February 25, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Post
In Thursday’s debate, Barack Obama declared that "what's lacking right now is not good ideas." In this Washington Post op-ed, Sebastian Mallaby argues that good ideas on big issues such as climate change are actually quite scarce.
See more in United States, Energy/Environment, U.S. Election 2008
February 11, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Post
In this malaise election, should candidates be focusing on economic concerns or foreign policy? Sebastian Mallaby discusses the role of both in the 2008 election.
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January 28, 2008
News Briefing
CFR experts offer their analysis of President George W. Bush's final State of the Union address.
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January 28, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Post
In his Washington Post column, Sebastian Mallaby writes that investment banks should reform their incentives so they are more like hedge funds.
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January 22, 2008
Podcast
CFR’s Sebastian Mallaby says emergency rate cuts reveal a shifting focus at the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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January 14, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Post
Last year's Nobel Prize in economics went to three founders of a field known as mechanism design theory - the rules by which people with varying preferences can reconcile their interests. When applied to the presidential primaries, mechanism design theory finds that “just like badly designed auctions, the primaries encourage ‘strategic’ behavior that conceals true preferences.” To this end, Sebastian Mallaby argues that the primaries are even more absurd than most critics recognize.
See more in U.S. Strategy and Politics, U.S. Election 2008
December 10, 2007
Op-Ed
Washington Post
Sebastian Mallaby writes that "Hank Paulson ranks among the Bush administration's many disappointments."
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November 26, 2007
Op-Ed
Washington Post
The good news on climate change is that the world wants to do something. The bad news is that none of these fine sentiments will matter unless a critical mass of countries unites around a real policy. Delegates from around the world will meet next month in Bali, supposedly to launch negotiations on a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol. In this Washington Post op-ed, Sebastian Mallaby argues that while people agree that action is essential, they disagree so fiercely on the details that action may prove impossible.
See more in Climate Change, International Organizations
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For more than a decade, the United States has mostly watched from the sidelines as Asian countries organize themselves into an alphabet soup of new multilateral groups. In this report, the authors review the relationship between pan-Asian and trans-Pacific institutions and suggest policy guidelines for a new U.S. approach to this new Asian landscape.
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Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies— produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine this nation’s adversity-driven culture to answer this question and offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.
In Forces of Fortune, Vali Nasr presents a paradigm-changing revelation that will transform the understanding of the Muslim world at large. He reveals that there is a vital but unseen rising force in the Islamic world—a new business-minded middle class—that is building a vibrant new Muslim world economy and that holds the key to winning the cold war against Iran and extremists.
In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia E. Sweig presents a remarkably accessible portrait of Cuba's unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years, including its internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.
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