RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Find out what our senior staff and colleagues have to say about current economic news, financial developments, regional and country issues, and public policy.

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RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Focused trade agreements can sustain the WTO in time of economic nationalism

Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE)

April 12, 2021
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

US economic sanctions against human atrocities in China and Myanmar

Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE) and Euijin Jung (PIIE)

April 8, 2021
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Rapid progress in US labor market but still a long way to go

Jason Furman (PIIE) and Wilson Powell III (Harvard Kennedy School)

April 2, 2021
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Global economy poised to expand faster, buoyed by vaccinations

Karen Dynan (PIIE)

April 1, 2021
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

For a fairer fight against pandemics, ensure universal internet access

Mary E. Lovely (PIIE) and David Xu (PIIE)

April 1, 2021
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

The new SDR allocation will benefit all countries

Maurice Obstfeld (PIIE) and Edwin M. Truman (Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard's Kennedy School)

March 25, 2021
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

How to accelerate vaccine innovations to counter future pandemics

Reinhilde Veugelers (PIIE)

March 24, 2021
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Bond markets are shrugging off inflation fears, but what do they know that we don’t?

Joseph E. Gagnon (PIIE) and Madi Sarsenbayev (PIIE)

March 23, 2021
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

How foreign exchange intervention works through saving and investment to move the trade balance

Joseph E. Gagnon (PIIE)

March 22, 2021
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

After orderly Brexit, a new European financial landscape starts to emerge

Nicolas Véron (PIIE)

March 19, 2021