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The work of the Greenberg Center for Geoeconomics is generously supported by leadership commitments from the Starr Foundation and the Amy Falls and Hartley Rogers Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Peterson Foundation, Sadek Wahba, John Paulson, Chris Hughes, Bob Pozen, and the Smith Richardson Foundation.

The sun flares over the top of the side entrance to the U.S. Treasury Department Building on August 18, 2024, in Washington, DC.
The sun flares over the top of the side entrance to the U.S. Treasury Department Building on August 18, 2024, in Washington, DC. J. David Ake / Getty Images
The sun flares over the top of the side entrance to the U.S. Treasury Department Building on August 18, 2024, in Washington, DC.
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Why U.S. Borrowing Costs Keep Climbing Despite Treasury’s Efforts

Four CFR experts explain why Treasury’s market interventions haven’t lowered bond yields, how the sell-off is spreading abroad, and how AI spending and higher oil prices are affecting the bond market.

By Benn Steil, Rebecca Patterson, Sebastian Mallaby and Brad W. Setser

A voter collects her ballot at a polling station during the New Hampshire State Primary Election in Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S., September 8, 2026.
A voter collects her ballot at a polling station during the New Hampshire State Primary Election in Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S., September 8, 2026. Kacey Chapman/Reuters
A voter collects her ballot at a polling station during the New Hampshire State Primary Election in Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S., September 8, 2026.
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Before the Midterms: What Americans Think About Trade and Tariffs

As Americans worry about affordability, the midterm elections could be a referendum on the Trump administration’s tariffs and trade policy.

By Allison J. Smith

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Disabled person with Multiple Sclerosis hand sorting prescription pills
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The Pharma Choke Point

The U.S. pharmaceutical supply chain faces a threat equal to the “rare earths” challenge already posed by China’s exploitation of its dominance of those critical minerals. The authors provide an archetype model that policymakers and researchers can...

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The Age of Economic Warfare

Economic warfare has gone global, and the post-1990s economic order, built for an age of efficiency rather than rivalry, is fragmenting. Three futures are possible: managed globalization, competing blocs, or pure transactionalism.

By Edward Fishman

Critical mineral ores, including copper, graphite, nickel, lithium, and manganese, against a black background and reflected on a mirrored table.
Critical minerals, such as the copper, graphite, nickel, lithium, and manganese shown here, are crucial for advanced technologies, energy infrastructure, and defense systems.  iStockphoto
Critical mineral ores, including copper, graphite, nickel, lithium, and manganese, against a black background and reflected on a mirrored table.
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Leapfrogging China’s Critical Minerals Dominance

The United States cannot out-mine and out-process China. Instead, it should leapfrog China’s dominance by scaling disruptive innovation, recovery, and recycling.

Core Questions

The Greenberg Center will address four foundational questions about how the United States should navigate a changing geoeconomic landscape.

  • How can we deploy economic power without eroding its foundations?
  • How can we safeguard economic security without undermining growth and prosperity?
  • How can we secure leadership in the technologies and industries that will define the future?
  • How is the global economic order changing—and what kind of order should we seek to build?

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The Surprising Staying Power of Trump’s Tariffs

By Allison J. Smith

Americans are unhappy with rising prices and see tariffs as part of the problem. But that doesn’t mean they agree on what to do about them.

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Edward Fishman

Senior Fellow and Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomics

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Thomas J. Bollyky

Bloomberg Chair in Global Health; Senior Fellow for International Economics, Law, and Development; and Director of the Global Health Program

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Alice C. Hill

David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment

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Benn Steil

Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics

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