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April 14, 2022

Financial Markets
What in the World Is a Global Minimum Tax?

For years, large corporations have exploited international tax laws to pay less taxes. But last year, 137 countries backed a potential solution: a 15 percent corporate tax applied regardless of a com…

Podcast Money
Podcast by Gabrielle Sierra Why It Matters

September 18, 2003

United States
Public Diplomacy Steps Taken Since 9/11 Not Enough; Council Task Force Urges the Bush Administration to Counter America’s Deteriorating Image as Anger at U.S. Deepens Post-Iraq War

September 18, 2003 - World opinion of the United States and U.S. policy has plummeted in the wake of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. The resulting widespread anger, fear, and mistrust, warns the Council-s…

News Releases

November 20, 2023

Financial Markets
Term Member Meeting With Former SEC Chairman Jay Clayton

Please join your fellow term members for a discussion with former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton on a range of topics including how financial markets and corporate exec…

Play Jay Clayton, former chairman of the SEC, speaks during the 13D Monitor's Active-Passive Investor Summit.
Virtual Event by Jay Clayton and Joseph Gasparro

February 7, 2013

Economics
The Fed, Credit Bubbles, and Exit

Jeremy Stein’s speech  today–“Overheating in Credit Markets:  Origins, Measurement, and Policy Responses”–provides valuable insight on the issue of credit bubbles that could result as a consequence o…

Blog Post by Robert Kahn Macro and Markets

September 29, 2020

Venezuela
Synchronizing With Europe on the Venezuela Crisis

The United States and its partners in the Americas have made little progress on ending the dire political and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela. Only with the cooperation of crucial partners in the Eu…

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks virtually during the 75th annual UN General Assembly, on September 23, 2020.
Blog Post by Paul J. Angelo Strength Through Peace

November 7, 2023

Central Africa
CFR Book Launch Series: "The Lumumba Plot" by Stuart Reid

Foreign Affairs Executive Editor Stuart Reid discusses his new book, The Lumumba Plot, which follows the dramatic history of the Congo in 1960 on the edge of its independence from Belgium, the ensuin…

Play Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo from June to September of 1960.
Virtual Event by Stuart Reid and Daniel Kurtz-Phelan CFR Fellows' Book Launch