July 16, 2008
Daily Analysis
Troubles at U.S. mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac renew fears that housing woes will rock global financial markets.
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June 26, 2008
Op-Ed
Financial Times
As emerging economies in Middle East and Asia become bigger foreign investors they are facing a new protectionist trend in many countries across the globe, write David Marchick and Matthew Slaughter.
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June 18, 2008
Op-Ed
Bloomberg
In the early part of the 20th century, wary merchants used the gold clause to hedge against inflation. Amity Shlaes describes the ongoing legal battle over the Halle building in Cleveland that highlights the implications of the dollar’s increasingly unpredictable movements.
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June 18, 2008
Podcast
CFR's Brad Setser explains factors leading to a tight recent correlation between rising oil prices and the falling dollar.
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Updated: June 17, 2008
Daily Analysis
After a series of interest rate cuts, the U.S. Federal Reserve looks set to increase rates to battle inflation, with broad implications for the dollar and the finance sector.
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June 11, 2008
Transcript
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June 2008
Council Special Report No. 34
Council Special Report
In the past three years, many countries have adopted or expanded regimes to review inward foreign direct investment (FDI) for either national or economic security purposes, reducing the quantity and quality of global FDI flows. The policy recommendations in this report aim to correct this protectionist drift by proposing guidelines for how countries can better regulate FDI yet still reap its economic benefits.
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June 10, 2008
Daily Analysis
Microfinance has become a catchphrase for the development community, but its popularity has triggered debate about the practice.
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June 9, 2008
Audio
Listen to experts discuss the development and impact of microfinance in as a tool for reducing poverty.
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June 9, 2008
Transcript
Maria Otero, Robert Annibale, and Elizabeth Littlefield discuss the changing context of microfinance, a sector in transition.
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Republican Convention (9/4): Michael Gerson writes that John McCain must challenge his party in his convention speech, in the Washington Post.
U.S. Politics (9/3): Amity Shlaes warns against “character campaigns,” arguing they leave little time to develop economic or foreign policy goals, on Bloomberg.com.
Campaign 2008 (9/3): Michael Gerson writes that John McCain’s sense of social justice combines “a religious concern for the weak and the oppressed with a military conception of national honor,” in Newsweek.
Middle East (9/2): Steven Cook looks at how the next U.S. president can be successful in the Middle East, in the American Interest.
Democratic Convention (8/30): Michael Gerson writes that Barack Obama's acceptance speech squandered opportunities to transcend partisan divides, in the Washington Post.
Democratic Convention (8/27): Michael Gerson argues that Barack Obama should use this historic moment to address America's divisions, in the Washington Post.
Presidential Campaign (8/27): Amity Shlaes writes that in America, politics is a contest between hope and fear, on Bloomberg.com.
In this report, CFR Fellow Brad W. Setser recommends addressing the U.S. current account deficit in order to strengthen the United States’ position abroad.
This report, written by CFR Senior Fellow Daniel Markey, outlines the nature of the challenges in Pakistan's tribal areas, formulates strategies for addressing those challenges, and distills the strategies into realistic policy proposals worthy of consideration by the incoming administration.
Complete list of Council Special Reports.
In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
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