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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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April 1, 2009
Listen to Roger M. Kubarych, the Henry Kaufman adjunct senior fellow for international economics and finance at CFR, discuss the global economic crisis and priorities for the Obama administration as part of CFR's State and Local Officials Conference Call series.
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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 24, 2009
A media conference call with CFR fellows Steven Dunaway, Matthew Slaughter, and Sebastian Mallaby on issues relevant to the G-20 summit.
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March 19, 2009
Watch Steven Dunaway, CFR Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics, lay out the argument of his recent Council Special Report and explain why in order for policymakers to tackle today's global economic crisis, 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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March 11, 2009
A Council on Foreign Relations address by Neville Isdell, chairman of the board of the Coca-Cola Company, on the global economic crisis.
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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
Watch William C. Dudley, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, analyze the causes of the financial crisis and lay out the plan of action that the Federal Reserve will take to help.
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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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March 5, 2009
Listen to Roger M. Kubarych, CFR's Henry Kaufman adjunct senior fellow for international economics and finance, discuss the global economic crisis with students as part of CFR's Academic Conference Call series.
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March 5, 2009, New York
A Council on Foreign Relations meeting on the current state and future prospects of international trade.
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March 5, 2009
Listen to Laurie A. Garrett, CFR senior fellow for global health, discuss her recent report, "The Future of Foreign Assistance Amid Global Economic and Financial Crisis: Advancing Global Health in the U.S. Development Agenda" as part of CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call Series.
February 19, 2009
Listen to CFR experts examine U.S. foreign policy toward Asia, the global economy, and the challenges and opportunities that fill the new administration's inbox.
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February 17, 2009
Lord Peter Mandelson, the UK's Secretary Of State For Business, Enterprise And Regulatory Reform, came to CFR's New York office to talk with Jes Staley, the CEO of Asset Management at JPMorgan Chase, about global economic conditions and the road forward.
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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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