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Brexit: Is the Financial System Ready?
“Some market and economic volatility can be expected as this process unfolds. But we are well prepared for this.” Those were the w...
Wedgetail · Jun 30, 2016Dangers of Following the Path to an Offshore Britain
Infamously 20 years ago, in assessing whether Britain should join the euro, one of the five tests was whether it would be good for...
Wedgetail · Jun 22, 2016What Can China Accomplish with its G-20 Presidency?
China is about to step up for the first time as host of the G-20 this September and the country has been working hard to make a go...
Wedgetail · Jun 22, 2016Diplomatic Update June 2016
Recent months have seen a flurry of diplomatic activity among the Six Parties, but as always with substantial uncertainty about wh...
Wedgetail · Jun 22, 2016The Hamburger Summit
Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again bromance with Kim Jong-un is apparently on again. The presumptive Republican presidential nomin...
Wedgetail · Jun 21, 2016Kim and Yang and Lankov on the Rise of the Informal Economy
We are currently in a holding pattern, waiting to find out whether the closure of Kaesong, multilateral and bilateral sanctions an...
Wedgetail · Jun 17, 2016Launch of the OECD’s 2016 Economic Survey of the United States
Ángel Gurría, secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), presented the OECD’s 2016 Eco...
Wedgetail · Jun 16, 2016The Global Value Chain Revolution and Trade Policy
Richard Baldwin, professor of international economics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, discussed the the global value chain revo...
Wedgetail · Jun 14, 2016The Republican Foreign Policy Statement
Last week, Speaker Paul Ryan unveiled a 25-page foreign policy strategy document at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he was...
Wedgetail · Jun 13, 2016Regional Convergence in China
Six years ago, all of China’s regions were still growing at a real rate of 10 percent or more. Taking into account population grow...
Wedgetail · Jun 10, 2016Hazel Smith’s North Korea: Markets and Military Rule
Hazel Smith has written a sweeping book on North Korea that summarizes her long engagement with the country entitled—quite simply—...
Wedgetail · Jun 10, 2016Brazil's Fiscal High Dive into Olympics 2016
The Olympic Games may offer Brazilians a temporary reprieve from the bad economic news plaguing the country, but Monica de Bolle s...
Wedgetail · Jun 09, 2016North Korean Forced Labor in the EU
A few weeks ago VICE released a remarkable documentary on North Korean forced labor in Poland, which provides a unique glimpse int...
Wedgetail · Jun 09, 2016China Policy Communications Under Scrutiny as Economy Gains Global Prominence
Uncertainty about China’s economic future has underpinned a substantial portion of global market volatility of the past year, a tr...
Wedgetail · Jun 08, 2016China's Market Economy Status and Antidumping: A $100 Billion, $10 Billion, or $1 Billion Dispute? Part 1
Despite its success as an export powerhouse, China has long protested that it has been relegated to the status of a “non-market ec...
Wedgetail · Jun 08, 2016The Screw Turns II: The Expansion of European Sanctions
On Monday, I talked about the new US Treasury designation. Last week, another shoe also dropped in the form of new European sancti...
Wedgetail · Jun 08, 2016How Dependent Are US Consumers on Imports From China?
If you are in the market for a new cell phone or a laptop, you better hope that the United States does not impose punitive tariffs...
Wedgetail · Jun 07, 2016Modi's US Visit Offers Window for Economic Opening
C. Fred Bergsten says Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's last official visit to the United States under President Barack Obama ...
Wedgetail · Jun 06, 2016The Screw Turns I: New US Financial Sanctions
This week, we lead with two developments on the sanctions front; today, the Treasury ruling that places new constraints on North K...
Wedgetail · Jun 06, 2016Black Market Contest Winner Announced!
We finally have a winner for the black market exchange rate contest! The contest, announced on March 16, was motivated by a friend...
Wedgetail · Jun 04, 2016