Since 1980, over one billion people around the world have ascended from poverty. In the past 15 years, nearly 50 developing countries have seen an average of five percent GDP growth per year. As new patterns of production, trade, and investment change the ...
The shale gas revolution presents an historic opportunity for American competitiveness in the global economy. In addition to contributing to American energy security, the domestic oil and gas boom may provide an avenue for job creation beyond the energy se ...
Google chairman Eric Schmidt and Google Ideas director Jared Cohen have a vision of the future: an entirely connected world where information and technology will totally influence war, peace, diplomacy, business, and everyday life. With five billion new pe ...
From Dodd-Frank to Basel III and beyond, financial regulators are struggling to keep pace with the rapid evolution and increasing complexity of global finance. To combat the systemic risks that revealed themselves during the financial crisis, regulators ha ...
Advanced manufacturing expertise coupled with diversified manufacturing and business services ensure Chicago’s future as a global city, according to a report by Senior Fellows Richard C. Longworth and Phil Levy. They will present their findings during a p ...
The 2008 crisis was the world’s largest financial shock since the Great Depression and provided a stress test for global economic governance. States rely on institutions (and abbreviations)—IMF, WTO, G20, UN—to coordinate action on a global scale. But in r ...
Mexico and the United States share a two-thousand-mile border and trade more than 1.3 billion dollars’ worth of goods and services per day—key aspects of a broad, important, and complex bilateral relationship. In the spirit of advancing its economy, Mexico ...
The US Navy has been engaged in the important and often dangerous work of protecting major waterways key to global commerce and security for over 200 years. But how should we think about war at sea today and what it means for the Navy in the immediate deca ...
Debt and leverage have become much maligned terms in the aftermath of the global financial and European debt crises. There are reasons, however, why practically all companies acknowledge the value of debt and seek to have an optimal debt ratio in place. As ...
Event Summary By Richard C. Longworth We’re living in a new world of unsustainable inequality, of the “alpha-geeks” vs. everybody else, Chrystia Freeland told The Chicago Council Wednesday evening. The result is a “genuinely hard” problem, needing both po ...
