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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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October 19, 2009
Stephen S. Roach on the future of China's economy and what it means for the rest of the world, as part of the Council on Foreign Relations' China 2025 conference.
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October 15, 2009
Watch experts discuss the U.S.-Chinese economic relationship including trade policy and the Chinese purchase of American debt.
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September 3, 2009
Edward Alden, CFR senior fellow and director of U.S. Immigration Policy, a CFR-Sponsored Independent Task Force Report, discusses immigration policy online with Politico readers.
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July 8, 2009, Washington DC
The Task Force on U.S. Immigration Policy argues that the failure to reform immigration laws and procedures threatens to harm America's economy, jeopardize its diplomacy, and weaken its national security. It makes the case that maintaining America's political and economic leadership depends on attracting talented and hard-working immigrants, and on securing the country's borders in a smart, effective, and humane way. The report urges Congress and the administration to undertake a new comprehensive reform effort with three central components: the creation of a more efficient legal immigration system that responds to labor market needs and enhances U.S. competitiveness; a strong enforcement regime that secures U.S. borders and ends the hiring of unauthorized workers; and a program of earned legalization that will offer an opportunity for many illegal immigrants to earn the right to remain in the United States.
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April 23, 2009, Washington D.C.
James W. Owens, Chairman and CEO of Caterpillar, Inc., shares his perspective on issues facing the larger economy, with a particular focus on trade.
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April 24, 2009, Washington D.C.
A conversation with Alistair Darling, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the current state of the global economy, protectionism and the G-20 summit.
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April 21, 2009
Watch Dambisa Moyo, author of the new book Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa, share her thoughts on the current system of international development aid.
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April 15, 2009
Speaker Giuliano Amato discusses the state of US and Europe after the financial crisis.
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April 2, 2009
The following is a transcription from a Council on Foreign Relations meeting on the Group of 20 (G-20).
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March 30, 2009, New York
The sixth session of a Council on Foreign Relations Symposium on a second look at the Great Depression and the New Deal.
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March 30, 2009, New York
The fifth session of a Council on Foreign Relations Symposium on a second look at the Great Depression and the New Deal.
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March 30, 2009, New York
1995 Nobel Laureate in Economics Robert Lucas speaks at the luncheon session of a Council on Foreign Relations Symposium on "A Second Look at the Great Depression and the New Deal."
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March 30, 2009, New York
Session Two of a Council on Foreign Relations Symposium on a Second Look at the Great Depression and The New Deal. Did labor policy under Hoover and Roosevelt make the Depression worse, or pave the way to recovery?
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March 30, 2009, New York
Session One of a Council on Foreign Relations Symposium on a Second Look at the Great Depression and the New Deal. A panel focusing on what occurred economically during the 1920s that contributed to the Crash in 1929.
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March 30, 2009, New York
Session Three of a Council on Foreign Relations Symposium on a Second Look at the Great Depression And The New Deal. A panel on infrastructure spending, both today and 80 years ago.
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March 27, 2009
Martin Wolf, CFR's Distinguished Visiting Fellow for International Economics, speaks about lessons learned from the financial crisis.
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March 25, 2009
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner addresses a Council on Foreign Relations meeting with his plan to adjust regulations on the U.S. financial system.
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March 10, 2009
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke discusses the financial crisis and presents a strategy to holistically reform and regulate America's financial system.
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March 6, 2009
A Council on Foreign Relations address by William Dudley, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, on the global financial system.
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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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