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May 12, 2009

United States
Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics: Financial Turbulence and U.S. Power

Session One: The Global Consequences of the Crisis Joseph S. Nye Jr., Distinguished Service Professor and Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Ha…

June 20, 2024

United States
Paul C. Warnke Lecture on International Security: Turning Point—The Bomb and The Cold War

The Netflix series Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War is an exploration of the decades-long conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union framed by current events that reveal the Cold…

Play A cinematographer films an atomic mushroom cloud in a project named "Operation Plumbbob" Colorado.

March 27, 2024

Grand Strategy
The President’s Inbox Recap: The Case for U.S. Retrenchment Overseas

Proponents of retrenchment want the United States to do less overseas.

Nine boats with alternating flags of the United States and South Korea as viewed lined up in a row.

November 27, 2006

Monetary Policy
Stephen Jen: only 60% of China’s reserves are in dollars.

Stephen Jen sometimes says the darnedest things.  Not about currencies.   But about reserves. His estimates for oil reserve growth have been consistently on the low side.   Norway, the UAE and Kuwait…

March 26, 2007

China
Commentary on the People’s Investment Company has been outsourced to Stephen Green

Stephen Green of Standard Chartered has the best analysis I have seen of the bureaucratic politics behind the creation of China’s new state investment company, as well as the best analysis of the con…

August 14, 2006

United States
I don’t think Stephen Jen can argue that I have been inconsistent.

Wrong, maybe, but not inconsistent.Stephen Jen notes that China is not the only country with an enormous current account surplus that intervenes massively in the foreign exchange market – “If…