President Obama will end his Asia tour at the East Asia Summit in Bali, reinforcing U.S. commitments to allies. But experts say Washington must fix the U.S. economy to retain any long-term leadership role in the region.

This report tracks the foreign investment portfolios of the BRIC governments— Brazil, Russia, India, and China—by looking at reserves holdings and holdings of U.S. assets.

Michael Spence and Mohamed El-Erian explain how a fundamental review of the way political decisions are made in the United States and Europe can improve policymaking.

APEC economic leaders gave this declaration at the close of the 19th annual APEC meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii on November 12-13, 2011.

Peter Orszag describes three major headwinds facing college-age Americans: rising inequality, higher tuition costs, and a weak labor market.

Michael Hodin urges G-20 leaders to think beyond short-term crisis management and create long-term policies that promote economic productivity among the aging.

Peter Garber delves into China's offshore currency market to understand what drives its growth and what it means for further liberalization of the renminbi.

Jeffrey Frankel looks to history as a guide in determining the renminbi’s prospects for becoming an international currency.

Robert McCauley asks whether Chinese officials can guide the renminbi to internationalization while preserving their influence over credit growth and allocation.

Takatoshi Ito charts the renminbi’s progress toward becoming an international currency and discusses what steps China should take to complete the process.

Alan Taylor explores what benefits the global monetary system could expect from an internationalized renminbi.

Jagdish Bhagwati defends poverty-reduction strategies based on economic growth against critics who favor redestributive policies.

Peter Orszag traces the roots of the Occupy Wall Street movement to long-term declines in labor's share of national income.

Michael Spence presents three major employment challenges facing the global economy as it undergoes massive structural change.

Leslie H. Gelb argues that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent remarks to the Economic Club of New York should compel foreign policy experts and political leaders to face the new 21st-century reality: that gross domestic product matters more than military might.

Most pundits argue the eurozone has only two options: break up or create a fiscal union to match its monetary one.

Is globalization to blame for rising unemployment and income inequality in the United States?

Benn Steil's column in the October 10th edition of Dow Jones' Financial News takes a critical look at popular European calls for a new "Marshall Plan."

In Washington's current political climate, Jagdish Bhagwati sees an end to American leadership on multilateral free trade.

Amity Shlaes compares the Buffett Rule to Andrew Mellon's campaign to end tax breaks for the rich in the 1920s.