November 12, 2008
Energy and Climate PolicyNew York Ciy, New York RICHARD N. HAASS: Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Welcome to the Council on Foreign Relations. My name's Richard Haass and I'm lucky enough to be the president of this or…
September 15, 2010
Economic CrisesFormer Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan discusses prospects for financial recovery and the future of the housing market. This meeting was part of the C. Peter McColough Series on Internationa…
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The Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellowship in Business and Foreign Policy was established in 2002 with a gift from the Bernard and Irene Schwartz Foundation. The fellowship focuses on the global integration of financial markets and their significance for U.S. economic and foreign policy.
December 3, 2012
CubaAlan Gross begins his fourth year in a Cuban prison tomorrow, having been jailed on December 3, 2009. The State Department issued a good statement: Tomorrow Alan Gross will begin his fourth ye…
March 12, 2018
World Trade Organization (WTO)Why the WTO Can Survive the Trump Steel Tariffs
October 29, 2014
United StatesAlan Greenspan, former chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, joins Gillian Tett, U.S. managing editor at the Financial Times, to discuss current trends in the global econo…
October 29, 2014
United StatesAlan Greenspan, former chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, joins Gillian Tett, U.S. managing editor at the Financial Times, to discuss current trends in the global econo…
June 20, 2019
Monetary PolicyThe role of the Federal Reserve has transformed in the past decade, as it has deployed trillions of dollars to boost the U.S. economy while expanding its regulatory oversight of the nation’s financia…
February 28, 2018
ChinaTerm limits for the leadership are not usually found in dictatorships. The Chinese Communist Party’s proposed abolition of China’s presidential term limit means that it has forgotten one of the main …
May 23, 2019
United StatesIn January 1986, Ronald Reagan marched into a meeting of his economic advisory board and let off steam about inflation. “I used to pay $50 for a suit,” he fumed. “Now $50 will hardly get it cleaned.”…