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February 6, 2009
Listen to CFR experts Jagdish Bhagwati and Edward Alden discuss the "Buy American" provision in the stimulus bill.
February 2, 2009
New York Governor David Paterson talks about how the global financial crisis has affected New York State, and how the state will move forward in the comnig months.
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January 12, 2009
Experts look to past financial crises for insights on necessary policy changes and likely government interventions into financial markets, in a meeting in the McKinsey Executive Roundtable Series in International Economics.
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December 17, 2008
A Council on Foreign Relations Meeting as part of the Peter McCullough series on international economics.
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December 12, 2008
Walter Lukken, acting chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, discusses how commodity trading, speculation, and regulation affect the international financial markets.
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December 2, 2008
Listen to experts discuss U.S. trade policy at the final panel discussion in a series on the presidential transition co-hosted by CFR, the Economist, and New York University's Stern School of Business.
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December 1, 2008
Session II of a symposium on the U.S. - Japan partnership focusing on the global economy, instabilities, and reforms.
This session was part of the CFR Symposium on the U.S.-Japan Partnership: An Agenda for Change, cosponsored with the Asahi Shimbun.
December 1, 2008
Watch Nobel Laureate in economics, A. Michael Spence, analyze the many policy measures addressing the global crisis.
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November 25, 2008
A Council on Foreign Relations meeting discussing the possibility of rethinking financial market regulation to avoid cycles of boom and bust. This meeting is part of the McKinsey Executive Roundtable Series in International Economics.
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November 14, 2008
Gordon Brown, prime minister of the United Kingdom, speaks about the global financial crisis and the need for international cooperation to mitigate its effects.
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November 12, 2008
Listen to CFR experts Sebastian Mallaby, Benn Steil, and Brad Setser discuss the G20 international financial summit-dubbed Bretton Woods II-taking place in Washington, DC on November 15.
November 12, 2008
A discussion on the current economic crisis.
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November 12, 2008
Remarks by David J. O'Reilly, chairman and chief executive officer of Chevron Corporation, on U.S. energy security and energy's role in the economy.
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November 11, 2008
Experts from the Council on Foreign Relations, The Economist, and New York University Stern School of Business discuss the status of global finance and how the incoming Obama administration should handle the dire economic situation.
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November 6, 2008
A address by Samuel Palmisano, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of IBM Corporation
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November 3, 2008
Listen to experts explain the origins of the recent financial crisis and offer possible solutions for the current and next administrations.
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October 21, 2008
Listen to economic advisers from the McCain and Obama campaigns discuss each candidate's positions on tax policy, trade, and the financial crisis.
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October 21, 2008
Watch economic advisers from the McCain and Obama campaigns discuss tax policy, trade, and the financial crisis.
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October 20, 2008
A Council on Foreign Relations panel discussion on the presidential candidates' plans for taxes, health care, and tackling the financial crisis.
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October 16, 2008
Listen to Timothy D. Adams, managing director of the Lindsey Group, and Simon Johnson, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, discuss the implications of the financial crisis for foreign markets and how it will affect the global economy.
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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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