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October 13, 2009
Forbes Online
This year's Nobelists demonstrate the United States' success in science. But Edward Alden argues that we are jeopardizing this success through shortsighted immigration restrictions that make it difficult for the most talented and ambitious scientists to come here and remain.
See more in United States, Geoeconomics, Immigration
September 15, 2009
Bloomberg
Amity Shlaes warns that without the right incentives, market players will continue to game the system in the very fashion that President Obama deplored in his speech on reforming financial regulation.
See more in United States, International Finance
August 25, 2009
Bloomberg
Amity Shlaes comments on efforts to reduce the pay gap between men and women.
See more in United States, Economics
August 13, 2009
Washington Post
Amity Shlaes examines the Corporate and Financial Institution Compensation Fairness Act.
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July 28, 2009
Bloomberg
Amity Shlaes argues that the Federal Reserve is a "monarchy" with power to intervene in the world economy.
See more in United States, Economics, Financial Crises
July 13, 2009
Los Angeles Times
Jeb Bush, Thomas F. McLarty III, and Edward Alden discuss the recent Independent Task Force on Immigration Policy and argue, "Getting immigration policy right is fundamental to [U.S.] national interests -- our economic vitality, our diplomacy and our national security."
See more in United States, Immigration, U.S. Strategy and Politics
July 9, 2009
Bloomberg
Amity Shlaes compares today's economic policy with that of the 1980s.
See more in United States, Economics, Financial Crises
July 6, 2009
Time Magazine
Amity Shlaes argues, "FDR's tenacity did not suffice to get the economy back to where it had been before the Great Depression began."
See more in United States, Economics, U.S. Strategy and Politics, Presidency
June 23, 2009
Bloomberg.com
Amity Shlaes considers the elimination of the job of U.S trade representative.
See more in United States, Trade
June 9, 2009
Amity Shlaes argues, "Europe's stunning fiscal outlays permitted it to pursue tighter monetary policy, while the U.S. used monetary policy as a substitute for European-scale fiscal spending."
See more in Europe/Russia, Germany, International Finance
June 8, 2009
Wall Street Journal
Edward Alden argues, "the U.S. can't afford to keep turning away the best and the brightest."
See more in United States, Economics, Labor, Trade
May 26, 2009
Washington Post
Sebastian Mallaby argues that China’s ideas on international finance are mostly muddled.
See more in China, Financial Crises, International Finance
May 8, 2009
Washington Post
Sebastian Mallaby argues that forward-looking stress tests should be made permanent to prevent future financial blowups.
See more in United States, Economics, Financial Crises
May 8, 2009
Forbes Online
Amity Shlaes discusses Wendell Willkie's criticisms of New Deal policies.
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May 7, 2009
Wall Street Journal
Matthew J. Slaughter argues that "President Obama's recent soundbites suggest an uncompetitive auto industry."
See more in United States, Financial Crises, Geoeconomics, Trade
April 22, 2009
Nikkei Financial Daily
Roger M. Kubarych argues that Washington is overly optimistic regarding economic recovery.
See more in United States, Financial Crises
April 21, 2009
Bloomberg.com
Amity Shlaes argues that the new Financial Trust Index offers cause for optimism.
See more in United States, Economics, U.S. Strategy and Politics
March 27, 2009
Washington Post
Sebastian Mallaby argues that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's ideas on regulation and wind-downs are sensible, but they won't prevent the next crisis or save taxpayers from the cost, making it imperative that the financial industry take on less risk.
See more in United States, Corporate Governance, Financial Crises
March 4, 2009
Forbes Online
Unlike the world's leaders at the last G20 meeting, President Obama has not turned his rhetoric loose against protectionism. In this Forbes.com article, Jagdish Bhagwati writes that Prime Minister Gordon Brown must ask the president to passionately defend trade and openness.
See more in U.K., Trade, Congress
February 23, 2009
McKinsey & Company
Sebastian Mallaby examines the dangers of transparency in the financial marketplace.
See more in United States, Corporate Governance, Geoeconomics
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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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