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November 12, 2009
The recession has added fuel to the debate over skilled-worker visas, including a recent congressional effort to create stricter rules. CFR's Jagdish Bhagwati says the United States should be welcoming skilled workers and other immigrants.
See more in North America, Immigration
November 9, 2009
Standard Chartered CEO Peter Sands says Western and Asian economies are both at risk of asset bubbles and that higher savings and social safety nets in Asia are not a near-term fix to global financial problems.
See more in Asia, Emerging Markets, Financial Crises
October 22, 2009
Morgan Stanley executive Stephen Roach says China's undervalued currency is a "red herring" in the debate over global imbalances and that policymakers should instead focus on China's social safety net and boosting U.S. savings.
See more in United States, China, Economics
August 12, 2009
Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, says U.S. domestic climate legislation might pass in 2010, after Congress deals with health care reform. But a global climate agreement, set to be discussed in Copenhagen in December 2009, is dependent on U.S. policy, she says.
See more in United States, Energy/Environment, Climate Change
May 8, 2009
CFR's Roger Kubarych gauges what the results of much anticipated stress tests will mean for the future of the U.S. banking industry.
See more in United States, Financial Crises
April 1, 2009
Mo Ibrahim, a Sudanese businessman who promotes good governance and entrepreneurship in Africa, says foreign investors, whether they are corporations, funds, or donor nations, must take the lead in bringing transparency and accountability to Africa's government and business sectors.
February 25, 2009
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.
See more in United States, Financial Crises
February 3, 2009
Award-winning historian Walter Russell Mead says, "The key political question of the twenty-first century is, 'How does the U.S.-China relationship develop?'"
See more in United States, China, Financial Crises, Industrial Policy, International Organizations
December 12, 2008
Elizabeth Economy, CFR's director of Asian Studies, says that China's economy is now "losing steam very quickly" and that the "global economic crisis is going to make it much harder for China to address its own domestic economic problems."
See more in China, Economics, Financial Crises
November 11, 2008
CFR's Peter Kenen discusses the current financial crisis and what will come of the upcoming international financial summit.
See more in United States, EU, Economics, International Finance
November 5, 2008
CFR President Richard N. Haass, who worked on previous presidential transitions, says that given the current world situation, he believes the first priority for President-elect Barack Obama lies in "the financial and economic side," and that "the near-term foreign policy challenges are probably Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, [and] a little bit of Iraq."
See more in United States, U.S. Election 2008
October 24, 2008
Daniel Markey, a former State Department specialist on South Asia, says Pakistan "is going through another series of really tough times" brought on by the economic downturn that has hit the country, and by the continuing problems fighting the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
See more in Pakistan, Economics
October 21, 2008
The Financial Times' Martin Wolf argues that massive accumulations of currency reserves enabled housing bubbles in developed economies and sparked the current financial crisis. The shakeout, Wolf says, could take years.
See more in United States, China, Economics, International Finance, International Organizations
October 17, 2008
Shantayanan Devarajan, chief economist of the World Bank's Africa region, discusses how Africa will be affected by the global financial crisis.
See more in Africa, Economics, International Organizations
October 10, 2008
David Rubenstein, founder of the private equity firm the Carlyle Group, sees more pain ahead for global markets. He says the "entire economic construct" of recent decades may have to undergo radical change before the present crisis subsides.
See more in United States, Economics, International Finance
October 9, 2008
Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School, discusses the long-term geopolitical implications of the financial crisis.
See more in United States, Business & Foreign Policy, International Finance
October 8, 2008
The UN special envoy on climate change for Papua New Guinea discusses the implications the financial crisis has for international efforts on climate change.
See more in United States, International Finance, Climate Change
October 6, 2008
Economist Nouriel Roubini argues the $700 billion U.S. bailout bill will not alleviate frozen credit markets in the short term and encourages a series of steps to alleviate the current crisis.
See more in United States, Europe/Russia, Economics, Business & Foreign Policy, International Finance
Updated: September 17, 2008
Maurice R. Greenberg, the former chairman and CEO of the embattled insurance giant AIG, discusses what will be needed to stabilize the firm's operations.
See more in United States, Economics
September 9, 2008
Four CFR experts discuss the U.S. Treasury's takeover of mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, what the move means for financial markets, and what risks remain.
See more in United States, Financial Crises, International Finance
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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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