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Rethinking Trade and Reframing the Trade Debate
Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX) discussed “Rethinking Trade and Reframing the Trade Debate” on September 27, 2016, at the Peterson ...
Wedgetail · Sep 27, 2016Economic Situation in Brazil and Latin America
Arminio Fraga of Gávea Investments and Robert Zoellick, chairman of Goldman Sachs’ International Advisors, spoke at the Peterson I...
Wedgetail · Sep 26, 2016Swiss-EU Pragmatism on Immigration Will Have Limited Bearing on Brexit Negotiations
The emerging notion among Brexit optimists that the United Kingdom could use Switzerland as a template for negotiating new immigra...
Wedgetail · Sep 23, 2016Launch of Assessing Trade Agendas in the US Presidential Campaign
Yesterday, Marc Noland presented his research on the presidential candidates' trade policies that he co-authored with Sherman Robi...
Wedgetail · Sep 23, 2016Launch of Assessing Trade Agendas in the US Presidential Campaign
The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) presented a new PIIE Briefing, Assessing Trade Agendas in the US Preside...
Wedgetail · Sep 22, 2016Vulnerability to Sanctions I: Park and Walsh
As the discussion shifts ineluctably towards sanctions in the wake of the fifth test, attention also naturally shifts to DPRK-Chin...
Wedgetail · Sep 22, 2016Launch of the Geneva Report: What Else Can Central Banks Do?
The Peterson Institute for International Economics hosted the Washington launch of the 18th Geneva Report “What Else Can Central B...
Wedgetail · Sep 14, 2016Slave to the Blog: August Catch-Up Edition II
Yesterday, I reviewed some of the most important developments surrounding the peninsula, starting with the North Korean missile te...
Wedgetail · Sep 07, 2016Brazil’s Post-Impeachment Economics
Financial markets’ renewed fondness for Brazil—the country’s stock market has rallied 60 percent this year—is hard to square with ...
Wedgetail · Sep 06, 2016Slave to the Blog: August Catch-Up Edition I
No sooner do we go on vacation then the world goes to hell in a handbasket. More seriously, developments on the Korean peninsula a...
Wedgetail · Sep 06, 2016Gloomy Autumn in Store for Europe
Europe is about to experience a hectic start of the political season, with more problems on its hands than at any time in recent y...
Wedgetail · Sep 02, 2016China's New Economic Frontier: Overcoming Obstacles to Continued Growth
China's economy is at a pivotal moment, as it faces both imminent and long-term challenges that may significantly hamper the robus...
Wedgetail · Aug 31, 2016Brazil’s Economic Malaise Rekindled as Olympic Flame Goes Out
Monica de Bolle outlines the tough economic challenges facing Brazilian acting President Michel Temer now that the Olympic games a...
Wedgetail · Aug 31, 2016Uneasy Calm at Fed’s Jackson Hole Conference
Adam S. Posen says the mood at the annual Economic Policy Symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City at Jackso...
Wedgetail · Aug 31, 2016The sky fell on the US poultry industry last year. But NAFTA and the TPP helped protect US exports.
Migrating birds don’t pay much attention to border regulations, it turns out. But last year’s “bird flu” outbreak, a huge blow to ...
Wedgetail · Aug 30, 2016Evaluating the IMF’s Performance on Financial-Sector Aspects of the Euro Area Crisis
The Peterson Institute has posted The IMF’s Role in the Euro Area Crisis: Financial Sector Aspects on its website, and a parallel ...
Wedgetail · Aug 29, 2016B.R. Myers: North Korea’s Juche Myth I
I have never put much weight on ideological explanations of North Korea’s domestic or foreign behavior. To be sure, the regime was...
Wedgetail · Aug 03, 2016Defection, Labor Exports and Border Control
Revised August 2 3PM. An earlier version of this post reported that the UN staff from the Office of the High Commissioner for Huma...
Wedgetail · Aug 02, 2016The Democratic Party Platform: the Asia Dimension
Last week, I looked at the Republican Party platform document, significant not for its substantive effect if Mr. Trump prevails bu...
Wedgetail · Aug 01, 2016The Republican Bankruptcy Illusion
There is now near-unanimity that the United States' Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation, enacted in 2010, did not end the prob...
Wedgetail · Jul 31, 2016