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May 18, 2012

Trade
Morning Brief: Facebook Holds Largest U.S. IPO

Facebook successfully completed its initial public offering (IPO) raising $16 billion with a total initial market capitalization of $104 billion, the largest for a U.S. IPO (Bloomberg). That valuatio…

A man in New York holds a pamphlet of information on investing in Facebook's IPO. (Lucas Jackson/Courtesy Reuters).

December 9, 2021

Elections and Voting
Ten Elections to Watch in 2022

Numerous countries will hold elections in 2022. Here are ten to watch. 

Voting

December 1, 2016

China
China’s Vision for a Regional Trading Block Has its Own Challenges

One oft-made argument is that with Trump’s decision not to move forward with the TPP, China has an opportunity to fill the regional trade void. Chinese policy makers are certainly pushing their regio…

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December 20, 2018

International Economic Policy
China's November Trade and the U.S. Trade Data from October

Both China and the U.S. provided their respective snapshots on the state of global trade earlier this month… The U.S. October trade data showed that the U.S. imports continue to grow at a robust c…

China's November Trade and the U.S. Trade Data from October

August 10, 2016

Fossil Fuels
Time to Repeal U.S. Oil and Gas Tax Breaks

This post is co-authored by Sagatom Saha, research associate for energy and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. Read "The Impact of Removing Tax Preferences for U.S. Oil and Gas Produ…