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October 16, 2009
Statement
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October 15, 2009
Report
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September 28, 2009
Speech
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September 25, 2009
Statement
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September 25, 2009
Statement
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September 14, 2009
Speech
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June 26, 2009
Report
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June 17, 2009
Report
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June 17, 2009
Speech
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May 18, 2009
Fact Sheet
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May 14, 2009
Letter
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May 13, 2009
Plan
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April 26, 2009
Communiqué
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April 25, 2009
Plan
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April 2009
Report
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March 30, 2009
Speech
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March 23, 2009
Statement
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In Money, Markets, and Sovereignty, the authors present a fascinating intellectual history of monetary nationalism from the ancient world to the present and explore why, in its modern incarnation, it represents the single greatest threat to globalization.
In The Closing of the American Border, Edward Alden goes behind the scenes to tell the story of the Bush administration’s struggle to balance security and openness in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
In Regional Monetary Integration, Peter B. Kenen poses an important question: Should various country groups follow the lead of the European Monetary Union and form similar full-fledged monetary unions?
In contrast to conventional wisdom, the growth in government spending and heightened regulation during the Great Depression may have done much to slow economic recovery.
In this report, Benn Steil shows that the financial crisis is the inevitable bust of a classic credit boom, and explains how monetary, taxation, and home ownership promotion policy combined with other feaures of the financial system to fuel an unsustainable buildup in debt. He recommends significant reforms to reverse the debt financing bias and make the system more resilient to falls in asset prices.
In order for policymakers to tackle today’s global economic crisis, this report argues, they must go beyond bailouts and stimulus packages and focus on one of the crisis's root causes: imbalances between savings and investment in major countries.
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