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Speeches & Papers
Using trade to undergird peace
Op-Eds
Trump and Xi Would Need Personality Transplants to Get This Deal Done
Soumaya Keynes (Financial Times) and Chad P. Bown (PIIE)
via New York Times
Op-Eds
He Was Good at Steering the Fed, but He Was a Genius at Ignoring Trump’s Threats
via New York Times
Op-Eds
The Consensus on China’s Economy Is Strong—and Wrong
via Project Syndicate
Op-Eds
For What AI Could Do to Democracies, Look to the Petrostates
via Foreign Policy
Op-Eds
The World After Trump
George Papaconstantinou (European University Institute) and Jean Pisani-Ferry (PIIE)
via Project Syndicate
Op-Eds
Prices Are High. Here's One Reason Not to Panic.
via New York Times
Op-Eds
Toward Active Custodianship of the WTO
Simon J. Evenett (IMD Business School), Bernard M. Hoekman (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, EUI), Petros C. Mavroidis (Columbia Law School; Bruegel) and Alan Wm. Wolff (PIIE)
via Global Trade Alert
Op-Eds
Europe Is Stuck With America
via Foreign Affairs
Op-Eds
Global foreign direct investment falters as Asian investment flows rise strongly
via East Asia Forum