Tie U.S. Recovery Program to Economic Indicators
Peter Orszag wants the United States to rely more on automatic stabilizers to stem the shocks from recessions.
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Peter Orszag wants the United States to rely more on automatic stabilizers to stem the shocks from recessions.
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Michael Hodin says the path to fiscal sustainability lies in funding research programs and healthy aging initiatives that reduce the government outlays needed to care for an aging population.
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Jagdish Bhagwati criticizes U.S. President Barack Obama for failing to close the Doha Round, decrying outsourcing, and surrending to the "manufactures fetish."
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Sebastian Mallaby proposes that Mitt Romney declare war on America's addiction to debt.
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Jagdish Bhagwati recommends developing nations avoid emigration restrictions to stem the outflow of their skilled workers.
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With recent advances in oil extraction techniques, Peter Orszag says a revolution could be on the horizon for U.S. oil production.
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Edward Alden and Liam Schwartz explain how a safe and simple visa process can help the U.S. tourism industry.
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Peter Orszag examines the push to provide greater price transparency to health-care consumers as a strategy for reducing health-care costs.
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Peter Orszag examines recent U.S. trends in retirement to better understand how the weak economy is affecting older workers.
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Andrew C. Miller and Neil Bouhan examine whether Africa's single-currency zone, stretching from Senegal to the Central African Republic and linking eight countries and 123 million people, will survive if the euro crashes.
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Michael Hodin urges U.S. presidential candidates to consider how women can be economically empowered in their senior years.
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Michael A. Levi separates fact from fiction regarding the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Michael Spence wants to rethink the role of the state in addressing the problems of instability and inequality that are endemic to free-market systems.
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In addressing capitalism's critics, Sebastian Mallaby champions hedge funds as appealing alternatives to too-big-to-fail institutions.
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Peter Orszag questions whether the U.S. military budget cuts outlined by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will be fully implemented.
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Peter Orszag writes that investment in equipment and software is likely to remain a bright spot in the U.S. economy in 2012.
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Jagdish Bhagwati argues that while the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is being sold in the United States as evidence of American leadership on trade, the exact opposite is true.
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Richard N. Haass argues that as China's future becomes increasingly uncertain, it remains very much in the world's interest that China be integrated into global arrangements.
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Peter Orszag explains how an important cause of increased polarization in Congress is increased polarization among the American people.
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Michael Spence says too much blame has been heaped upon currencies for the West's economic woes.
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More Money than God
In More Money than God, Sebastian Mallaby has written the first authoritative history of hedge funds—from their rebel beginnings to their role in defining the future of finance. More
Money, Markets, and Sovereignty
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. More
The Closing of the American Border
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. More
Termites in the Trading System
In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system. More
Lessons of the Financial Crisis
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 features 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. More
Global Imbalances and the Financial Crisis
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. More