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June 2, 2009
Podcast
CFR's Brad Setser examines U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's statements about the need to rebalance China economic relations with the United States and says China shouldn't be overly concerned about the risks of U.S. inflation.
See more in China, Geoeconomics
April 28, 2009
Podcast
Greg Ip, U.S. economics editor at the Economist, examines what he calls the "more creative and more aggressive" policy of the U.S. Federal Reserve and says policymakers may seek oversight of how the Fed provides loans.
See more in United States, Financial Crises
April 13, 2009
Podcast
A defense budget expert at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments says the Pentagon's recent spending request should be seen not as a sign of shifting military strategy, but rather a rebalancing of defense priorities.
See more in United States, Defense Policy & Budget
April 8, 2009
Podcast
A senior USAID official and CFR's Isobel Coleman discuss aid priorities in Pakistan and how development programs can be made more effective.
See more in Pakistan, Foreign Aid
April 3, 2009
Podcast
CFR's Sebastian Mallaby says the deal agreed at the April 2 G-20 summit could mark a turning point for the future of financial regulation and the international monetary system. He adds, however, that many questions about how this shift might unfold remain unanswered.
See more in Financial Crises, International Organizations
March 18, 2009
Podcast
Robert Cottrell, the Economist's former Moscow correspondent, discusses Eastern Europe's financial troubles and what they might mean for EU cohesiveness.
See more in Europe/Russia, Financial Crises
January 30, 2009
Podcast
CFR health expert Laurie Garrett says the start of a new U.S. administration amid a global economic crisis offers an opportunity to reform the system for delivering foreign aid.
See more in United States, Foreign Aid
November 21, 2008
Podcast
A preview of world events in the coming week from CFR.org and the Economist.
October 3, 2008
Podcast
Al Breach, an analyst focusing on Russian markets, discusses factors contributing to steep recent losses for Russian equities.
See more in Russian Fed., Economics
September 22, 2008
Podcast
CFR's Benn Steil analyzes the financial rescue plan under debate on Capitol Hill and suggests adjustments that he says would make it more effective and less risky for the federal government.
See more in United States, Economics
June 18, 2008
Podcast
CFR's Brad Setser explains factors leading to a tight recent correlation between rising oil prices and the falling dollar.
See more in Geoeconomics, International Finance
January 22, 2008
Podcast
CFR’s Sebastian Mallaby says emergency rate cuts reveal a shifting focus at the U.S. Federal Reserve.
See more in United States, Economics, Geoeconomics
January 18, 2008
Podcast
James D. Grant, an expert on financial markets, says the dollar’s position as an uncollateralized global reserve currency is being tested.
See more in United States, International Finance
November 12, 2007
Podcast
CFR's Brad W. Setser explains what's behind the dollar's recent decline and what it means for the world 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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