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  Global Autos

  In this meeting of the Business and Foreign Policy Roundtable, Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Renault-Nissan Alliance, and Steven Rattner, Former Head of the U.S. Treasury Department's Auto Task Force, discuss the role of government in the private sector given the recent experiences of the automotive industry.

  The U.S.-China Relationship

  Steven Dunaway says that President Obama should dispel the many myths surrounding the U.S.-China economic relationship.

  Geo-Graphics

  Legislative Federal Debt Ceiling

  The United States is rapidly approaching its legal debt limit of just over $12 trillion. As of September 2009, U.S. debt stood at $11.9 trillion. As the chart below indicates, Congress has raised the limit four times in the past three years, as the need for financing has risen. Some hope that the limit will encourage fiscal responsibility. Others fear that this exercise raises the risk...More

  

  • Bartlett: Why Congress Must Now Abolish Its Debt Limit
  • NYT: Treasury Expects Debt Limit Will Be Hit in Dec.
  • FT: U.S. Government Debt
  • Economist: America’s Public Debt

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  • Global Supply Chain
  • Stressed Union
  • U.S. Interest vs. Defense Spending
  • China’s Dollar Addiction
  • Government Debt: Financed by Official Sector

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  Expert Insight and Commentary

  Geoeconomics Working Papers

  Global Imbalances, National Rebalancing, and the Political Economy of Recovery

  In this CGS Working Paper Jeffry Frieden reviews the historical record on the political fallout from the unraveling of macroeconomic imbalances.

  

   

   

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  The Gloomy Prospects for World Growth

  In this CGS Working Paper, Steven Dunaway argues that the world economy faces the prospect of a prolonged period of slower growth.

  

   

   

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  Op-Eds

  Keynes, Friedman Give Way to the Master of Gloom

  Amity Shlaes

  Bloomberg.com

   

   

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  Stock markets applaud cost containment, but for how long?

  Roger M. Kubarych

  Nikkei Financial Daily

   

   

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  Secret Israeli Weapon Can Fix Mideast

  Amity Shlaes

  Bloomberg

   

   

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  Harvard Giving Ends When Reject Letter Arrives

  Amity Shlaes

  Bloomberg

   

   

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  Expert Briefs

  The U.S.-China Economic Relationship: Separating Facts from Myths

  China's breathtaking economic growth and massive imbalances with the United States have given rise to some myths about the nature of the two...

   

   

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  China's Role in the "New Era of Engagement"

  China has benefited enormously from Western-dominated global structures, writes CFR's Stewart Patrick, and Washington now expects it to...

   

   

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  Why China May Stumble

  China's continued impressive growth is by no means assured, writes CFR's Steven Dunaway. Without basic changes to its economic model,...

   

   

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  Trade and Climate Change

  The main U.S. bill on confronting climate change should adjust the way it proposes cushioning some vulnerable U.S. industries to avoid...

   

   

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  CGS Resources

  CGS Experts

  

  Edward Alden
  

  Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow

   

   

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  Jagdish N. Bhagwati
  

  Senior Fellow for International Economics

   

   

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  Michael A. Levi
  

  David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change

   

   

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  Marc Levinson
  

  Senior Fellow for International Business

   

   

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  Sebastian Mallaby
  

  Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics

   

   

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  Amity Shlaes
  

  Senior Fellow for Economic History

   

   

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  Benn Steil
  

  Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics

   

   

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  Council Special Reports

  

  The Canadian Oil Sands

  Michael A. Levi

  Council Special Report No. 47

  May 2009

   

   

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  Lessons of the Financial Crisis

  Benn Steil

  Council Special Report No. 45

  March 2009

   

   

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  Global Imbalances and the Financial Crisis

  Steven Dunaway

  Council Special Report No. 44

  March 2009

   

   

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  Sovereign Wealth and Sovereign Power

  Brad W. Setser

  Council Special Report No. 37

  September 2008

   

   

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  Global FDI Policy

  David M. Marchick and Matthew J. Slaughter

  Council Special Report No. 34

  June 2008

   

   

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  Books

  

  Money, Markets, and Sovereignty

  Benn Steil and Manuel Hinds 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.

   

   

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  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.

   

   

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  Termites in the Trading System

  Jagdish Bhagwati argues preferential trade agreements are protectionist discriminatory, and put the world trading system at risk.

   

   

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  CGS Chart Books

  • CGS: Foreign Exchange Reserves in the BRICs (Updated 10/09)
  • CGS: Economic Cycle (Updated 9/09)

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  In the new issue of International Finance, edited by the Council's Benn Steil, Alan Blinder analyzes the challenges involved in "Making Monetary Policy by Committee."

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  Squam Lake Papers

  Proposals on financial reform from 15 economists.

  • Resolution Mechanisms (10/09)
  • Retirement Saving (7/09)
  • Credit Default Swaps (7/09)

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  CFR Events

  Audio, Video, Transcripts

  The ExxonMobil Women and Development Roundtable Series: Women as Change Agents in the Recovery from the Global Financial Crisis (Video)

  November 20, 2009

  Watch Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank Group, focus on innovative approaches to advance economic opportunities for women and...

   

   

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  How Should Governments Drive Industry Change? Lessons Learned from the Global Automotive Sector (Audio)

  November 19, 2009

  Listen to experts weigh in on the role that the govenment should play in the private sector given the recent experiences of the automotive...

   

   

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  State and Local Officials Conference Call: U.S. Immigration Policy (Audio)

  November 18, 2009

  Listen to CFR's Edward Alden discuss the findings of the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. Immigration Policy, which he...

   

   

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  Countdown to Copenhagen Symposium: Session 3: U.S. Options for Copenhagen

  November 10, 2009, Washington D.C.

  Experts outline some of the options the United States negotiating team could pursue during climate change talks at Copenhagen.

   

   

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  Blogs

  Amity Shlaes: The Forgotten Man

  French Doors, Swimming Pools, Apartment Shortages
  September 29, 2009

  Michael Ferri’s Evidence from 2004 Election….
  September 25, 2009

  Four Trading Days In September
  September 25, 2009

  Sunset Necessity
  September 3, 2009

  The Man Who Talked Back….
  May 11, 2009

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  Foreign Affairs

  Losing Controls

  Mitchel B. Wallerstein

   

   

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  The Dollar and the Deficits

  C. Fred Bergsten

   

   

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