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May 28, 2015

China
China’s RMB Swap Lines with Latin America

My colleagues Benn Steil and Dinah Walker recently published a great interactive on the spread of central bank currency swaps since the financial crisis. They find the United States provided developi…

July 8, 2009

Europe and Eurasia
Unemployment

Until the economic crisis, many praised the U.S. model of flexible labor markets for promoting faster growth and low unemployment. But flexibility has a cost: the United States is leading the G7 in…

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July 20, 2015

Iran
Unraveling the Iran Nuclear Deal on "Day One"

Two of the Republican candidates for president, Gov. Scott Walker and Gov. Jeb Bush, are in an argument over how the United States can best get out of the Obama nuclear agreement. This argument has n…

November 29, 2012

Economics
The U.S. Economic Recovery in Historical Context

My colleague Dinah Walker has just published charts comparing the US recovery to its predecessors, which have been updated to include today’s revised third quarter data. Two points: 1. The current r…

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January 31, 2019

China
A Bold Proposal for Fighting Censorship: Increase the Collateral Damage

Valentin Weber is a DPhil candidate in cybersecurity and a research affiliate with the Centre for Technology and Global Affairs at the University of Oxford. He is also an Open Technology Fund (OTF) S…

People walk past a Lenovo shop in Hefei, Anhui province