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https://www.forbes.com/sites/phillevy/2018/01/27/president-trump-makes-his-pitch... January 27, 2018 ForbesGlobal EconomyGlobal Economy ...



Events

The bulls have been raging and the economy has added jobs year after year, yet productivity growth has remained stubbornly stuck for more than a decade. Years after the financial crisis—and despite a high-tech innovation economy—this productivity paradox ...


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The Trump administration has charted a new course on trade deals, largely eschewing multilateral frameworks for bilateral agreements. Indeed within days of taking office, the administration unilaterally withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Y ...


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Almost a decade after the start of the financial crisis, the world’s major economies are enjoying sustained growth. But even as the economic cloud of the Great Recession begins to lift, economists and policymakers are still grappling with the legacies and ...


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The global economy as we know it is changing before our eyes. The Trump administration has implemented shifts in economic policy—retreating from multilateral trade negotiations, deploying tariffs, and passing a huge tax reform bill—that have already made ...



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Alexander Hitch's blog mh_trudeauj-azevedo-wto_700x365.jpg Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Roberto Azevedo, Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, October 24, 2018 ...


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Millennials are becoming the most influential consumers in America and the world. They are taking over the US workforce and some are soon to be the recipients of the largest wealth transfer ever. Their financial behaviors—how they spend, save, and invest ...


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CEOs, heads of office, and other select C-suite executives from member companies are invited to participate in quarterly meetings co-hosted by Council president Ivo H. Daalder and board cochair Samuel C. Scott III. These members-only meetings provide an o ...