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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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January 22, 2024
Trade
The Curse of Nostalgia: Industrial Policy in the United States
A critical look at the past and present of industrial policy shows that its recent popularity is not only misguided, but is likely to have negative economic and geopolitical consequences for the Unit…
October 20, 2023
Monetary Policy
What Is the U.S. Federal Reserve?
Over the past decade, the Fed kept interest rates low while it deployed trillions of dollars in stimulus and expanded its regulatory oversight. Now, the central bank is back in the spotlight for its …
April 5, 2022
Japan
Glen S. Fukushima: Japanese Capitalism and Its Lessons for the United States
Among G7 countries, Japan and the United States are the polar extremes in the type of capitalisms they represent. Although Japan today faces challenges of its own, its experience offers some lessons …
September 29, 2009
Economic Crises
State and Local Officials Conference Call: Update on the Global Economy (Audio)
Listen to Roger M. Kubarych, the Henry Kaufman adjunct senior fellow for international economics and finance at CFR, give an update on the global economy in light of the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh an…
September 26, 2023
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy
Kim Budil, director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, discusses the recent achievement of a net energy gain from a nuclear fusion reaction and its implications for the futu…
September 23, 2009
International Organizations
At G-20 Economic Summit, Relief and Rituals
CFR’s Roger M. Kubarych says the G-20 summit will find leaders relieved that the worst of the global economic crisis is over but divided over substantive changes to the world’s financial architecture.