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It’s Time to Rethink the Conventional Macroeconomic Policy Framework

Paul James Sheard is an Australian-American economist. He is Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.

Joining the NYU School of Professional Studies

BWC member Greg Johnson will be joining the NYU School of Professional Studies as an adjunct professor, where he'll lecture on the nexus of technology, innovation, and legacy business. Greg was on the drafting team for BWC's Digital Finance Project Team's most recent brief.

Keith B. Carter

BWC would like to welcome new member Keith B. Carter. Keith advises companies and governments on strategic use of data, fintech policy, talent development, and data-driven communications.

His passion is teaching design thinking, data-driven decision-making, robotic process automation, algorithmic trading, and, especially, actionable intelligence, which he characterizes as the right information, in the right person's hands, at the right time to improve outcomes.

Key Takeaways from 2022 and Bold Predictions for 2023

BWC member and former CFIUS member Harry Broadman commented in Foreign Investment Watch on what the key developments in CFIUS policy during 2022 were and what might be a significant CFIUS policy action in 2023.

Legitimacy, Accountability and Inclusiveness: Are The Bretton Woods Institutions “Democratic”?

Professor Susanna Cafaro has taught European Union Law and International Law in the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy) since 2001.

Lessons of the FTX Collapse

The collapse of FTX in many ways is an example of the problems associated with a weakly regulated financial enterprise, as much as it is a demonstration of the problems associated with crypto finance in its current state. 

As a financial enterprise, the bankruptcy of FTX shows the major failings that can arise in an organization with an exceptionally weak governance structure as regards internal financial controls, record-keeping and the oversight of an independent board of directors. There also appear to have been shortcomings in the scope and scrutiny of its outside auditors.

Linda Goldberg

BWC’s newest member is Linda Goldberg, Senior Vice President in Financial Intermediation at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Linda brings her great expertise in the areas of global banking, international capital flows, and the international roles of the dollar and other currencies to our network.

Look Out America, Here Come the Bond Vigilantes

BWC chair Bill Dudley says, "if US officials don’t do something about the government’s fiscal problems, the bond market will."

Loss of Investor Confidence and the Banking Crisis

Central banks should become "more flexible in their interest rate decisions to calm down equity markets," while at the same time communicating "their commitment to bring inflation under control over time," argues BWC member Hung Tran.

Low-Income Countries Need a Boost for the Recovery. Here's How the IMF Can Step Up

Most observers gave the IMF high marks for its initial response to the COVID-19 crisis. It responded quickly with emergency financing to 86 countries, including a fivefold increase in its concessional lending to low-income countries (LICs).