Time, like the Family Circus, is a flat circle

Social Market Foundation Aveek Bhattacharya Neil Lee My conclusions: what would a pro-growth, pro-worker immigration policy look like?

'That America’s leaders are committed to preventing another China shock is commendable. But going too far in the other direction could produce a different kind of avoidable disaster,' Rogé Karma writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

From the brilliant Michael Clemens:

At the US-Mexico border, an uptick in lawful immigration pathways

=> fewer unlawful entries in following months

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And Mary Lovely 🇺🇦 piie.com/publications/p…

Not sure everyone understands that Trump/Lighthizer Sec 301 “China” tariffs were explicitly designed to HARM US manufacturing workers. Peterson Institute Adam Posen piie.com/blogs/trade-an…

If we had never passed immigration restrictions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there would already be close to a billion Americans and these geopolitical debates would be ~moot.

China eased the one-child policy in 2013 and predicted an additional 2 million births in 2014. Only 470,000 more people were born in 2014 than 2013. Find out about the challenges China faces in addressing its demographic challenges: bit.ly/cp_demographics

'We've got opened-ended fiscal problems.' Peterson Institute President Adam Posen says there are global uncertainties surrounding US trade and policy
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Two days of fascinating seminars.
Gita Gopinath talking to Adam Posen at the meeting of IMF & Peterson Institute of International Economics, on Rethinking Economic Policy: Steering Structural Change.

We have written to Biteback publishing regarding a fabricated quote, attributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild, being used in 'Ten Years to Save the West'. They have apologised and have promised it will be removed for the e-book & any future print editions.

Full quote here ⬇️

Richard Baldwin IMD Adam Tooze Adam Posen OECD Trade ➡ Making Trade Work for All Trade Diversion (Jonathan Dingel) Hanna C. Norberg Simon Lester Simon J. Evenett Alan Beattie Shawn Donnan Soumaya Keynes Jonathan Portes At OECD Trade ➡ Making Trade Work for All we are looking into the same questions (issuu.com/oecd.publishin…) and are watching inflation closely. Once you move to an analysis in constant prices, you see no global trend towards deglobalization 👇 as you, Richard Baldwin also pointed out in rbaldwin.substack.com/p/the-peak-glo….

This is important from Richard Baldwin
The China Globalization Paradox

China is shredding through export markets all around the world and, at the same time, China is deglobalizing: how is that possible?
👉The China Globalization Paradox
Today's Factful Friday:(🔗linkedin.com/pulse/chinese-…) cc: IMD Alan Beattie Jason Furman Justin Wolfers

Kaushik Basu The Adam Posen conversation with Gita Gopinath begins with his introduction at 5:13:00 in this video. 🙏 #Geoeconomic #Fragmentation (I hope Peterson Institute or IMF will clip the video into shorter pieces!) youtube.com/live/HYZVr5LVi…

Kaushik Basu Adam Posen Gita Gopinath Peterson Institute IMF Peterson Institute has cued up the video segments for different discussions over the course of today here (though without clipping the 5:40:58 video itself!) 🙏 piie.com/events/2024/re…

Enlightening conversation with @adamPosen at Peterson Institute about inflation divergence across the Atlantic, Europe´s challenges in a fragmented world and Spain´s positive outlook.

Useful exchange of ideas about how to improve policy decisions in a rapidly changing world.

Watch our discussion in collaboration with Peterson Institute with Central Bank Governor of Turkey Fatih Karahan and South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago on central bank governance in emerging markets. on.cfr.org/3Q4yfGk

In this CFR-Peterson Institute event, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde discussed monetary policy, the global economy, and more, including aid to Ukraine.

Watch her full conversation with CFR President Michael Froman: ➡️ on.cfr.org/3UwJryp

My new Capitolism @TheDispatch reviews a boatload of new analyses showing that, contra the sour online discourse, millennial finances are *actually* looking good these days.

'Cheer Up, Millennials' thedispatch.com/newsletter/cap…