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May 26, 2009

Financial Markets
Reforming Global Finance: The Squam Lake Papers

The global financial crisis has revealed serious flaws in regulatory systems worldwide. To explore these flaws and offer guidance on reform, the Squam Lake Working Group on Financial Regulation, a co…

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October 26, 2022

Arms Industries and Trade
The Cost of the U.S. Arms Trade

The global arms trade is big business and the United States accounts for more than 40 percent of the world’s weapons exports. Aside from the profit motivation, selling arms abroad can be an effective…

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July 16, 2023

United States
How Today Is Like the 1890s

The most popular historical analogy for current American troubles is the Civil War era. The second most popular is the Gilded Age. But where the 1850s do not meaningfully resemble today, the 1890s ce…

The U.S. flag flies near the Statue of Freedom atop the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC.

November 4, 2014

Russia
What Kept the Cold War "Cold"?

Graham T. Allison of Harvard's Kennedy School, Jeremi Suri of the University of Texas at Austin, and William Taubman of Amherst College join Foreign Affairs editor Gideon Rose to discuss Cold War con…

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May 24, 2012

Monetary Policy
Conducting Monetary Policy at the Zero Bound: Rules, Learning, and Risk Management

William C. Dudley, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, discusses monetary policy. This meeting was part of the C. Peter McColough series on Internationa…

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