During the past decade, South American leaders such as Hugo Chávez and Evo Morales have increasingly snubbed U.S. efforts to persuade them to adopt free-market policies. While Washington has been distracted by military campaigns elsewhere, rivals such as C ...
After decades of an overreliance on debt and the resulting crises, Western economies find themselves in the unusual position of having to look to China and the Middle East to sustain many of their funding needs. This is leading to a paradigm shift in the w ...
While the global economic downturn has hurt many industries, travel and tourism are still growing. The World Travel and Tourism Council predicts that the industry will add 69 million net jobs by 2021, with four out of five jobs expected to be in Asia, Lati ...
Over the last few years, the financial sector has experienced its worst crisis since the 1930s. The collapse of major firms, the decline in asset values, the interruption of credit flows, and the loss of confidence in the market were all extraordinary in s ...
The global financial crisis has made it clear that even the budgetary policies of small nations can endanger the economic vitality of a broader region, as evidenced by how Greece’s fiscal problems threaten to jeopardize the euro’s existence. Marvin Zonis a ...
TPP_Talks_795x445.jpg Phil Levy's blog The latest headline in the Japan Times reads: “TPP talks in Sydney end with no breakthrough.” There is a reason people are paying attention to this: Global growth could receive a boost from new trade opening, ...
Event Summary by Richard C. Longworth Barry Eichengreen, an expert on the uses and abuses of economic history, told The Chicago Council Wednesday night that a misreading of the Great Depression weakened the recovery from the Great Recession. “We won the ...
https://www.thechicagocouncil.org/event/geithner-and-paulson-reflections-financi... Richard C. Longworth May 28, 2014 Chicago Council Event SummaryGlobal Economy Richard C. Longworth ...
https://www.thechicagocouncil.org/event/crisis-advanced-economies Richard C. Longworth April 23, 2014 Chicago Council Event SummaryGlobal Economy Richard C. Longworth ...
https://www.thechicagocouncil.org/event/raghuram-rajan-india-and-global-economy Richard C. Longworth September 5, 2014 Chicago Council Event SummaryGlobal Economy Richard C. Longworth ...
