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February 25, 2009
Interview
CFR economic expert Sebastian Mallaby credits President Obama with highlighting the long-term structural reforms needed to repair the U.S. economy and competitiveness, but says the scope of reforms may be too ambitious.
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February 23, 2009
Op-Ed
McKinsey & Company
Sebastian Mallaby examines the dangers of transparency in the financial marketplace.
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February 19, 2009
Audio
Listen to CFR experts examine U.S. foreign policy toward Asia, the global economy, and the challenges and opportunities that fill the new administration's inbox.
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February 19, 2009
Video
Watch CFR experts examine U.S. foreign policy toward Asia, the global economy, and the challenges and opportunities that fill the new administration's inbox.
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February 19, 2009
Transcript
Embarking on her first international trip later this month, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel to Japan, South Korea, China, and Indonesia to reinforce President Obama's commitment to active engagement and discuss the global financial crisis. Join CFR experts Edward Alden, Caroline Atkinson, and Elizabeth C. Economy to discuss U.S. foreign policy toward Asia, the global economy, and the challenges and opportunities that fill the new administration's inbox.
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January 25, 2009
Op-Ed
Washington Post
In this Washington Post op-ed, Sebastian Mallaby writes that China's currency manipulation is arguably the most important cause of the financial crisis. However, to get global growth going, it is more important to persuade China to extend its fiscal stimulus than to revalue its currency.
See more in China, Economics, U.S. Strategy and Politics
December 18, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Post
Sebastian Mallaby argues against responding to the Madoff scandal with more regulation of hedge funds.
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December 4, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Post
Sebastian Mallaby writes that the end-of-capitalism talk is bunk. It distracts us from the debate we should be having on how to manage the necessary shift in the balance of our mixed economy.
See more in Economics, U.S. Election 2008
November 24, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Post
Sebastian Mallaby says that desperate times demand creative remedies. Fortunately, Obama has chosen to surround himself with experienced technocrats-pragmatists who excel at imaginative improvisation.
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November 13, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Post
The financial insurance scheme known as the IMF has not kept up with the volume of capital flooding through the world's system. Sebastian Mallaby argues that it is time to radically update this insurance scheme and that government commitments to the IMF should be tripled.
See more in International Organizations
November 12, 2008
Audio
Listen to CFR experts Sebastian Mallaby, Benn Steil, and Brad Setser discuss the G20 international financial summit-dubbed Bretton Woods II-taking place in Washington, DC on November 15.
November 12, 2008
Transcript
A discussion on the current economic crisis.
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November 3, 2008
Audio
Listen to experts explain the origins of the recent financial crisis and offer possible solutions for the current and next administrations.
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October 26, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Post
Sebastian Mallaby discusses how the financial crisis has shifted from scene to scene with terrifying speed. The crisis has now migrated into parts of the financial system which are hard to rescue-emerging markets and unregulated hedge funds.
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October 25, 2008
Op-Ed
Wall Street Journal
In this Wall Street Journal op-ed, Sebastian Mallaby writes that persuading China to change its currency policy would be a worthy goal for a 21st-Century Bretton Woods. It will be up to the two great powers -- the U.S. and China -- to fashion a deal that brings China into the heart of the multilateral system.
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October 20, 2008
Op-Ed
The Washington Post
The Europeans have pressed successfully for a new Bretton Woods summit in response to the global financial crisis, but the Bretton Woods analogy is contrived. Sebastian Mallaby argues that while there is a role for global cooperation, it is worth remembering that after the last global crisis in 1997-98, the only important reforms were national ones.
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October 10, 2008
Op-Ed
The Washington Post
Sebastian Mallaby says that federal policy needs to pay more attention to ordinary families now that Wall Street has gotten its bailout. The fastest and fairest way to help ordinary people is via a budget stimulus package.
See more in Financial Crises
October 6, 2008
Op-Ed
The Washington Post
In this Washington Post op-ed, Sebastian Mallaby argues that blaming deregulation for the financial mess is both misguided and dangerous. One of the big challenges for the next president will be to defend markets against the inevitable backlash that follows this crisis.
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October 3, 2008
Transcript
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September 17, 2008
Transcript
In a conference call, experts debate what the financial crisis means for the functionality of the U.S. investment banking model.
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Explore the international finance regime with a new interactive from CFR's program on International Institutions and Global Governance.
Identifying international threats and acting on them may be the most difficult job for U.S. policymakers. This report
provides an actionable road map for managing international threats before they erupt into crises and makes a strong case that preventive action is not a luxury but a necessity.
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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