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Daniel Alpert: Americans Don’t Want to Return to Low Wage Jobs The hopes for a booming pandemic recovery — growth led by jobs gains in the millions every month — were dealt a blow in recent weeks by a disappointing April jobs report.	Tue, Jun 1, 2021	The New York Times
Laura Tyson and Lenny Mendonca: America’s Grassroots Saviors At the same time that Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are failing to address critical issues such as economic insecurity and climate change, state and local governments are taking action. Across the country, Americans – regardless of class or party – are rolling up their sleeves and working to improve their communities.	Tue, Jul 24, 2018	Project Syndicate
David Ricketts: An Audience with Dambisa Moyo: ‘There’s a lot More Pain to Come and it’s Not Fully Priced in’ The prominent economist, once named among the 100 most influential people in the world, considers discrimination and how the past can inform us about the future.	Mon, Jul 27, 2020	Financial News
Kevin P. Gallagher: Answering Yellen’s Call for a Shake Up of the International Economic System In these times of information overload it is easy to overlook groundbreaking news. In the midst of the G7 walk out of the G20 meetings and subsequent inability of the International Monetary Fund to issue a communique at its annual meetings during a period of unprecedented economic uncertainty, US Treasury Secretary called for a fundamental reform of the international financial architecture. This is a major event for US policy, which is at the epicenter of the problem and the solution.	Tue, Apr 26, 2022	The Bretton Woods Committee
Dambisa Moyo: Are Businesses Ready for Deglobalization? As we enter a new decade, characterized by rising economic complexity and geopolitical divisions — U.S.-China tensions, populism and nationalism in Europe, and the looming risk of a global recession	Fri, Dec 6, 2019	Harvard Business Review
Arturo Porzecanski: Argentina and the IMF: Another Default in the Works? The seeds for the latest chapter in Argentina’s long history of confrontations with the International Monetary Fund were planted about a year ago, on the eve of the global pandemic.	Wed, Mar 3, 2021	Americas Quarterly
Susan Segal, William R. Rhodes, John D. Negroponte, and Andrés Gluski: AS/COA Statement on COVID-19 Vaccine Collaboration in the Americas It is in the United States’ national interest to provide vaccines to Western Hemisphere countries, particularly Mexico, say AS/COA's chairman, chairmen emeriti, and president and CEO.	Thu, Mar 18, 2021	Americas Society/Council of the Americas
Lutfey Siddiqi: Asian Emerging Markets in the era of Infinity War It was just a year ago that Argentina issued a 100-year bond which offered a dollar coupon of less than eight percent for which, there was three times as much demand as supply. Shortly afterwards, major investment banks issued their outlook for 2018.	Mon, Oct 1, 2018	Bretton Woods Committee
Marsha J. Vande Berg: Asia’s emerging markets hold the keys to sustainable investment Japan’s newly re-elected prime minister, Shinzo Abe did not mince words in a recent article that led the Financial Times opinion page: Environmental risks are exacerbating. More robust action is needed. “And swiftly.”	Mon, Oct 1, 2018	Bretton Woods Committee
William R. Rhodes and Stuart P.M. Mackintosh: Avoiding the pain of China’s housing crisis risks infecting the wider economy o The growing housing crisis threatens to spread like previous financial contagions and damage economies across the globe o Policymakers need to let poor performers suffer the consequences of bad bets while looking after solvent banks and enacting land and property reforms	Wed, Aug 17, 2022	South China Morning Post