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November 20, 2009
Watch Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank Group, focus on innovative approaches to advance economic opportunities for women and girls worldwide.
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November 19, 2009
Listen to experts weigh in on the role that the govenment should play in the private sector given the recent experiences of the automotive industry.
See more in Business & Foreign Policy, Industrial Policy
November 18, 2009
Listen to CFR's Edward Alden discuss the findings of the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. Immigration Policy, which he directed, as part of CFR's State and Local Officials Conference Call series.
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November 10, 2009, Washington D.C.
Experts outline some of the options the United States negotiating team could pursue during climate change talks at Copenhagen.
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November 4, 2009
Watch Richard A. Posner, judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, analyze how past fiscal irresponsibility has led to challenges to the global standing of the U.S. financial markets.
See more in Financial Crises, Geoeconomics
October 22, 2009
Watch members of the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. Immigration Policy discuss the findings and recommendations of the Task Force report.
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October 21, 2009
Listen to Marc Levinson, senior fellow for international business at CFR, discuss the Obama administration's trade policy, American competitiveness, and the value of the U.S. dollar, as part of CFR's State and Local Officials Conference Call series.
See more in Business & Foreign Policy, Trade
October 20, 2009
Listen to experts break down the relationship between foreign aid and local business in the developing world.
See more in Business & Foreign Policy, Economic Development, Foreign Aid
October 19, 2009
Stephen S. Roach on the future of China's economy and what it means for the rest of the world, as part of the Council on Foreign Relations' China 2025 conference.
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October 15, 2009
Watch experts discuss the U.S.-Chinese economic relationship including trade policy and the Chinese purchase of American debt.
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October 15, 2009
Watch Alan Greenspan, president of Greenspan Associates LLC and former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, outline the causes of the financial crisis and what the outcomes have been, including large fiscal deficits and new financial reforms.
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October 8, 2009
Listen to Christine A. Varney, assistant attorney general for antitrust at the U.S. Department of Justice, speak about the need for regulation of price fixing and clear punishments for antitrust violations.
See more in Corporate Governance, Industrial Policy
September 29, 2009
Listen to Roger M. Kubarych, the Henry Kaufman adjunct senior fellow for international economics and finance at CFR, give an update on the global economy in light of the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh and the one year anniversary of the economic crisis, as part of CFR's State and Local Officials Conference Call series.
See more in Financial Crises, Geoeconomics
September 18, 2009
Listen to Edwin M. Truman and David Wessel as they preview the upcoming G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh and its significance for a world struggling to recover from financial crisis
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September 16, 2009
CFR Senior Fellow Michael A. Levi and CFR.org Editor Robert McMahon discuss the deadlock in global climate negotiations and the upcoming UN Copenhagen Summit in December 2009.
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September 9, 2009, New York
Charles L. Evans, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, comments on inflation expectations and revisits the Great Inflation of 1965-82.
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September 3, 2009
Edward Alden, CFR senior fellow and director of U.S. Immigration Policy, a CFR-Sponsored Independent Task Force Report, discusses immigration policy online with Politico readers.
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July 22, 2009, New York
Peter R. Orszag, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, discusses actions taken by the Obama administration in light of the financial crisis and prospects for recovery.
See more in Financial Crises, Labor
July 8, 2009, Washington DC
The Task Force on U.S. Immigration Policy argues that the failure to reform immigration laws and procedures threatens to harm America's economy, jeopardize its diplomacy, and weaken its national security. It makes the case that maintaining America's political and economic leadership depends on attracting talented and hard-working immigrants, and on securing the country's borders in a smart, effective, and humane way. The report urges Congress and the administration to undertake a new comprehensive reform effort with three central components: the creation of a more efficient legal immigration system that responds to labor market needs and enhances U.S. competitiveness; a strong enforcement regime that secures U.S. borders and ends the hiring of unauthorized workers; and a program of earned legalization that will offer an opportunity for many illegal immigrants to earn the right to remain in the United States.
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June 12, 2009, New York
National Economic Council Director Lawrence H. Summers speaks at CFR about economic policy during the financial crisis.
This session was part of the 2009 National Conference which was underwritten by a grant in memory of Peter E. Haas.
See more in Economics, Financial Crises
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In Money, Markets, and Sovereignty, the authors present a fascinating intellectual history of monetary nationalism from the ancient world to the present and explore why, in its modern incarnation, it represents the single greatest threat to globalization.
In The Closing of the American Border, Edward Alden goes behind the scenes to tell the story of the Bush administration’s struggle to balance security and openness in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
In Regional Monetary Integration, Peter B. Kenen poses an important question: Should various country groups follow the lead of the European Monetary Union and form similar full-fledged monetary unions?
In contrast to conventional wisdom, the growth in government spending and heightened regulation during the Great Depression may have done much to slow economic recovery.
In this report, Benn Steil shows that the financial crisis is the inevitable bust of a classic credit boom, and explains how monetary, taxation, and home ownership promotion policy combined with other feaures of the financial system to fuel an unsustainable buildup in debt. He recommends significant reforms to reverse the debt financing bias and make the system more resilient to falls in asset prices.
In order for policymakers to tackle today’s global economic crisis, this report argues, they must go beyond bailouts and stimulus packages and focus on one of the crisis's root causes: imbalances between savings and investment in major countries.
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