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The Fed’s Dilemma

The US Federal Reserve faces an uneasy choice. Despite solid rates of growth in the United States and China, the two eng...

Billy Graham meets Kim Il-sung

As a teenager in Appalachia, my father drove a milk truck (though as far as I know, I am not the subject of the Kentucky...

Better than Plaza? Reflections on Today's Currency Constellation with Lawrence Summers

Since the time that we took on the project of publishing International Monetary Cooperation: Lessons from the Plaza Acco...

Europe's Welcome Attempt to Harmonize Rules on Asylum Seekers

Europe's migration crisis has reinforced the importance of recent proposals by the European Commission to overhaul the s...

Migration emergency over (for now), but not because of the EU-Turkey deal

Following the March 20 deal between the European Union (EU) and Turkey, the refugee flow from Turkey to Greece has decli...

How Much Bank Capital Is Enough?

William R. Cline says new international norms developed after the crisis fall short of optimal levels of bank capital, b...

Diplomatic Moves

The challenges of getting back to the Six Party Talks are so great that too much emphasis should not be put on the faint...

Stephan Haggard Podcast on the North Korean Economy

It is difficult to assess the state of the North Korean economy, but we have increasing anecdotal evidence from defector...

Direct Trade Impact of Brazil’s Recession

Brazil’s real GDP fell by 3.5 percent in 2015 and a similar decline is projected this year. Which countries suffer the m...

Patrick Honohan Joins the Peterson Institute for International Economic

WASHINGTON—The Peterson Institute for International Economics is pleased to welcome Patrick Honohan as a nonresident sen...

America owes the Philippines more than empty praise