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Title	Article date	Article source
John B. Taylor: Simple Monetary Rules: Many Strengths and Few Weaknesses This paper endeavors to examine the basic idea in Richard Epstein’s book Simple Rules for a Complex World.	Tue, Jan 12, 2021	European Journal of Law and Economics
Dambisa Moyo: Six barriers to global growth – and how leaders can shatter them From trade wars and resource depletion to the rise of AI and spiralling debt, the world is full of risks for business leaders to worry about.	Tue, Jul 23, 2019	Director Magazine
Bianca Taylor and Jennifer R. Marlon: Sooner or Later, Climate Change Is Coming for Your Wallet Last week Gary Gensler, the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, made what seemed like an uncontroversial statement: “I think we can bring greater clarity to climate risk disclosures.”	Fri, Aug 6, 2021	Barron’s
Frank Vogl: Sovereign Debt and Kleptocracy - This Time It's Really Different The COVID crisis has injected a legitimate humanitarian imperative into bailing countries out of a sovereign debt crisis of historic proportions. The hastiness of the bailouts, however, is setting up all sorts of dire unintended consequences.	Wed, Jul 1, 2020	The American Interest
Mark Sobel: Sovereign debt architecture is messy and here to stay. Deal with it. With severe sovereign debt distress now entrenched and more to come, many analysts and practitioners want to revamp the architecture for sovereign-debt restructurings. To do this they are offering reform proposals that are often incompatible with the facts on the ground.	Tue, Aug 16, 2022	Financial Times
William R. Rhodes and John Lipsky: Stemming a Sovereign-Debt Crisis Rising interest rates and slowing global economic growth likely will spur many low-income countries to try to restructure their sovereign debt. This is troubling because recent restructuring cases have produced extended stalemates between borrowers and lenders rather than resolution.	Mon, Jan 31, 2022	Wall Street Journal Opinion
Stephen Groff: Stephen Groff new governor of the Saudi National Development Fund Stephen Groff was appointed on Thursday as governor of the Saudi National Development Fund by its board of directors, chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.	Sun, Jul 21, 2019	Arab News
Susanna Cafaro: Supranational Democracy Dialogues The Supranational Democracy Dialogues, dealing with the future of Europe and of global governance, but also of humanity as one big interconnected family, as the virus showed once more.	Fri, May 8, 2020	The Bretton Woods Committee
BWC Vice Chair John Lipsky: Surveillance: Recession Risk With Blanchflower (Podcast) John Lipsky, Former IMF First Deputy Managing Director, says data integrity is central and critical to the IMF.	Mon, Oct 15, 2001	Bloomberg
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	Bretton Woods Committee