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By Claude Barfield During her Senate confirmation hearing last week, incoming US Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai had a notable exchange with Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA). Toomey’s question was the very last put to her ....
This post summarizes my presentation for the AEI event, “Coping with COVID-19 in Emerging Market Economies,” on February 5, 2021.[1] In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments in emerging market economies (EMEs) ratcheted up ....
Donald Trump is gone, but his populism lives on. It’s not just that President Biden, like his predecessor, has signed a “Buy American” executive order for federal purchasing that’s meant to bolster domestic manufacturing. (Fun ....
How much will the Biden administration change America’s approach to trade policy? In particular, what will our approach to China look like? Will we see a reversion to the pre-Trump status quo, or are US ....
As I noted last week, the Trump administration recently finalized a regulation that imposes numerous new restrictions on refugees seeking asylum. I singled out a provision of the regulation that would generally bar asylum based ....
To what extent do low-skill immigrants contribute to the US economy, compared to high-skill immigrants? How does immigration affect wages for native workers? Does America have an assimilation problem? How should we think about border ....
The world economy developed as the result of increasing economic openness around the world and the fostering of connections between enterprising people. Will policymakers continue to embrace this approach, or are we likely to enter ....
By and large, the history of the world’s economy is defined by increased openness: more trade with other countries and more acceptance of innovation has raised dramatically living standards throughout the world over the past ....
President Erdogan’s recent economic policy U-turn is to be applauded as an important step in the right direction to stabilize the Turkish lira. However, it is far from clear that this alone will be sufficient to ....
This note summarizes my presentation for the AEI Event, “The Debt Challenge of Emerging Market Economies”, October 28, 2020.[1] How likely are emerging market (EM) economies to default? Even before the coronavirus pandemic, many of ....