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May 26, 2009, Washington D.C.
Members of the Squam Lake Working Group on Financial Regulation, a collection of fifteen leading economists and academics, discuss their recommendations for reforming global capital markets.
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May 26, 2009
Listen to members of the Squam Lake Working Group on Financial Regulation, a collection of fifteen leading economists and academics, discuss their recommendations for reforming global capital markets.
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May 22, 2009
Watch experts discuss the future of the International Monetary Fund, ranging from its governance to its potential role in alleviating financial crises.
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May 22, 2009
Listen to experts discuss the future of the International Monetary Fund, ranging from its governance to its potential role in alleviating financial crises.
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May 15, 2009
Watch experts discuss how the Euro has impacted the economies of member countries during the last ten years, and the complexities of navigating monetary policy amongst differing national interests.
This session was part of the 2009 International Affairs Fellows Conference.
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May 14, 2009, New York
CFR experts Benn Steil and Sebastian Mallaby discuss the lessons learned from the current financial crisis.
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May 12, 2009, New York
How does the U.S. financial system contribute to US power? Is the U.S. in danger of losing its pre-eminence in global finance? Is the dollar's status as a reserve currency under pressure, and does that affect the U.S. ability to lead global responses to world financial crises?
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May 12, 2009
Watch experts examine steps taken to regulate financial markets and debate whether more should be done or if some actions should be undone.
This session was part of the Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics: Financial Turbulence and U.S. Power, which was made possible through the generous support of Stephen C. Freidheim.
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May 12, 2009, New York, NY
Christina Romer, the chair of U.S. President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, presented a cautiously optimistic picture of U.S. recovery from the current recession in a May 12 address at the Council on Foreign Relations. Romer argued that the United States ought to be able to achieve strong economic growth without risking asset price bubbles like the ones seen in the dot-com business in early 2000 and then again in U.S. housing prices in 2006. Romer said President Obama's stimulus and regulatory reform agenda is an appropriate means to achieve this goal. "The goal of long-run economic growth without asset price bubbles is not only achievable," she said, "but is something we should expect if we put a sound regulatory framework in place and if policymakers remain vigilant." Romer cited "pent-up demand" and "the natural forces of inventory rebound" as factors that could work alongside Obama's policy to stir this growth.
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May 8, 2009, New York, NY
What new forms of international financial and monetary coordination and regulation are required in light of the global economic crisis? How should the United States work to reform the Bretton Woods Institutions? Should the BRICs and other developing countries have an increased role at the IMF and World Bank? What are the preconditions for a U.S.-China bargain on global monetary and financial issues?
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May 8, 2009
What will be the most effective forums for international cooperation in regulating the global commons, and what leadership role should the United States play on these issues? What are the prospects for a climate change agreement at Copenhagen in 2009, and what role should the United States play? What are the prospects for "mini-lateral" cooperation-especially between the United States, European Union, China, and India-among major emitter countries?
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May 7, 2009, New York, NY
What new forms of international financial and monetary coordination and regulation are required in light of the global economic crisis? How should the United States work to reform the Bretton Woods Institutions? Should the BRICs and other developing countries have an increased role at the IMF and World Bank? What are the preconditions for a U.S.-China bargain on global monetary and financial issues?
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May 6, 2009
Listen to Steven Dunaway, adjunct senior fellow for international economics at CFR, discuss his Council Special Report Global Imbalances and the Financial Crisis, as part of CFR's State and Local Officials Conference Call series.
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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 23, 2009
Listen to Edward Alden, CFR's Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow, and Richard D. Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, discuss their work on the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. Immigration Policy, with a focus on human rights and public diplomacy, as part of CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call series.
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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 20, 2009
Listen to Benn Steil, CFR Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics, as he speaks about his new book, Money, Markets, and Sovereignty, and the implications of monetary nationalism for today’s global economy.
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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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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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