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December 21, 2023

United States
The Bureaucratic Fix to the Military Recruitment Crisis

Declining recruitment numbers are vexing nearly all branches of the U.S. military. Removing a medical bottleneck could dramatically streamline recruiting for applicants and personnel.

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March 10, 2024

China
China’s Record Manufacturing Surplus

The U.S. likes talking about the dominance of the dollar. But don’t short-change China’s current dominance of manufacturing trade. Trade imbalances need to be taken seriously again.

Manufactured Goods Surpluses

March 18, 2024

Japan
The Japanese Bid for Foreign Bonds After the End of Yield Curve Control

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is widely expected to end yield curve control.  But Japanese yields will remain low, and foreign bonds will remain attractive to those Japanese investors who don't have to hed…

The Japanese Bid for Foreign Bonds After the End of Yield Curve Control

February 27, 2023

United States
To Compete With China, the United States Needs to Fix Immigration

Streamlining the immigration process for Indian talent will enable the United States both to increase its own domestic capacity and more effectively counter China.

Indian immigrants

May 25, 2017

United States
How to Fix the Trump Plan to Fix Our Infrastructure

In an uncharacteristically low-profile manner, the Trump administration included a high-level preview of how it intends to tackle America’s infrastructure deficit in the 2018 budget request it submit…

U.S. aging road and infrastructure

November 12, 2008

Capital Flows
Fixing Finance

G20 leaders are meeting in Washington to discuss a possible overhaul of global finance. One topic on the agenda is whether to increase the resources of the IMF, which stood at $201 billion at the e…

Fixing Finance