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Media	Title	Date
	Jason Schenker: The Fate of Asset Inflation After COVID COVID-19 was the greatest public health crisis in a century, and it engendered the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression.	Wed, Feb 24, 2021
	Anthony Elson: The Failure of Silicon Valley Bank – Are There Lessons for the Basel Regulatory Framework? The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on March 10 was a failure that should not have occurred. A confluence of factors involving regulators, SVB management, and its depositors came together in an adverse way to bring down the bank.	Fri, Mar 24, 2023
	Warren Coats: The Empire and the Dollar In our multicurrency world, the U.S. dollar is widely used for pricing internationally traded goods, for international payments, and for denominating the assets governments and companies hold as reserves. Why is that and what are its implications for U.S. behavior? What would a better system look like?	Mon, Mar 28, 2022
	Ousmène Jacques Mandeng: SVB and Stablecoins—Time to Tighten Regulation The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and subsequent jitters at USDC shall serve as a reminder that stablecoin regulation remains far too lax. Circle, the U.S. company and issuer of USDC, a stablecoin denominated in U.S. dollar, is mostly regulated in the U.S. as a money transmitter. This is grossly insufficient for a company with US$40 billion in stablecoins outstanding. Regulation and supervision need to impose sufficient obligations for stablecoin issuers to adopt best industry practices.	Fri, Mar 17, 2023
	Warren Coats: Sanctions About 5 days ago, on February 24, Russia illegally and without provocation and cause attacked the sovereign country of Ukraine. It is in everyone’s interest (with the exception of the military industrial complex) to end the fighting and establish a sustainable peace as quickly as possible.	Mon, Feb 28, 2022
	Gary Kleiman: Rotating Refugee Crises Demand Development Daring Another tragedy often overlooked during this year’s global Covid rampage, with their own physical mobility and financial remittance restrictions, is the 80 million displaced population in the UN’s latest tally, approximately one-third official refugees with 80% fleeing one developing country for another.	Tue, Dec 15, 2020
	Warren Coats: Proposal for an IMF Staff Executive Board Paper on Promoting Market SDRs Few initiatives would be more in keeping with the spirit and goals of the Bretton Woods Committee than the development of wide spread use of a truly international currency—the IMF’s SDR.	Tue, Feb 19, 2019
	Mahesh Kotecha: Perceived Versus Real Risk In African Credit Ratings The ratings of African governments have allowed a robust Eurobond market for African sovereign bonds with over $300 billion issued in the last couple of decades. Maintaining access to this market has persuaded many African countries not to seek debt relief under the misconceived G-20 Common Framework (CF) which only three countries have filed to use – Zambia, Ethiopia and Chad -- and none of them has an agreement yet two years after the CF was announced.	Fri, Nov 4, 2022
	Open Blog Call: The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework and US-China Relations BWC wants to hear its members’ take on how President Biden’s recent visit to Asia might shape Asian multilateral economic policy, and how might China respond to Biden's signature economic initiative for the region?	Thu, Jul 21, 2022
	Open Blog Call: The Future of the WTO BWC wants to hear its members’ take on whether the outcomes of MC12 conference demonstrate the continued relevance of the WTO as a multilateral institution that can deliver substantial progress for the benefit of the international community? What are the next steps for WTO reform?	Thu, Jul 21, 2022