Council on Foreign Relations

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.

Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland December 5, 2023 Renewing America

Climate Change

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.

Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland December 5, 2023 Renewing America

Health

How Tobacco Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on Cancer

During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised that his administration would make a “historic effort” to reduce long-running racial inequities in health. Tobacco use—the leading cause of p…

Interactive by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program

Health

How Tobacco Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on Cancer

Interactive by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program

Economics

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Lael Brainard

Lael Brainard of the Federal Reserve discusses the challenges facing U.S. economic recovery. The C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics brings the world's foremost economic policymakers and scholars to address members on current topics in international economics and U.S. monetary policy. This meeting series is presented by the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies.

Virtual Event with Lael Brainard and Roger W. Ferguson Jr. March 2, 2021 C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics

Economics

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Lael Brainard

Virtual Event with Lael Brainard and Roger W. Ferguson Jr. March 2, 2021 C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics

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January 6, 2016

Global

Economist Brad W. Setser Returns to CFR as Senior Fellow

Brad W. Setser returns to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) as a senior fellow with the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies.

News Releases

October 23, 2005

Economics

Another blogging Brad?

I never realized there were so many "Brad's" (leaving aside the famous one from Missouri now linked to Ms. Jolie) til I started doing this ... DeLong. Plumer. And now Brad Humphries over at the Spo…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

September 16, 2024

United States

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Lael Brainard

Lael Brainard, White House National Economic Advisor, shares an updated assessment of the U.S. recovery. The C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics brings the world’s foremost econom…

Federal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard speaks on stage foregrounding the U.S. flag.

Virtual Event by Lael Brainard, Blair W. Effron, and Matthew P. Goodman

August 23, 2024

United States

Election 2024: Kamala Harris Makes Her Case to the Nation

This Week: The Democratic nominee said America has a “fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness, cynicism and divisive battles of the past.”

Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

August 15, 2024

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 …

A stone bald eagle perches on the Federal Reserve building in Washington, DC.

Backgrounder by James McBride, Anshu Siripurapu, and Noah Berman Renewing America

May 16, 2024

China

Virtual Media Briefing: U.S. Tariffs on Chinese Imports

CFR experts discuss President Joe Biden’s decision to increase tariffs on various Chinese imports and the implications for the U.S. economy and U.S.-China relations. Please join the Zoom event at lea…

Shipping containers at Pier J at the Port of Long Beach wait for processing in Long Beach, California, U.S., April 4, 2018.

Virtual Event by Rush Doshi, Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Brad W. Setser, and Matthew P. Goodman

August 26, 2015

Digital Policy

Do Local Laws Belong In a Global Cloud? Q&A with Brad Smith of Microsoft (Part One)

In December 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) served Microsoft with a warrant requiring the company to hand over the e-mails of a Microsoft customer suspected of drug trafficking. Microsoft …

CFR Cyber Net Politics Microsoft Data Center

Blog Post by Adam Segal Net Politics