C. Fred Bergsten in Foreign Policy: The China Conundrum

WASHINGTONThe Peterson Institute for International Economics has begun a global search to fill its newly created C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellowship. The Executive Committee of the Institute's Board unanimously decided to newly endow a chair in honor ...

Japan's economy is finally getting a lift. The stock market is soaring there. Companies like Toyota and Sony are seeing a surge in profits. And today, Japan's government reported the economy grew a three-and-a-half percent annual rate in the first ...

WHO: Harold "Terry" McGraw: Chairman, President, and CEO, McGraw-Hill Companies; Vice-Chairman of ICC; Chairman of USCIB Robert B. Zoellick: Former President of the World Bank, former USTR C. Fred Bergsten: Emeritus Director, Peterson ...

The meeting between Presidents Obama and Xi in Palm Springs over the weekend presented another opportunity to berate China for its international economic imbalances, but the two presidents sensibly found more fruitful things to talk about. It's ...

Home >> United States & Canada >> Foreign Policy & Military EmailPrint Prof. Peter Morici - 6/9/2013 As Presidents Obama and Xi Jinping meet this weekend, China's aggressive actions and halting cooperation on a growing list of issues undermine ...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- As Presidents Obama and Xi Jinping meet this weekend, China's aggressive actions and halting cooperation on a growing list of issues undermine the U.S. economy and national security. Diplomacy has not yielded satisfactory ...

WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) - A majority of the U.S. House of Representatives has signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to insist on new rules against currency manipulation in a proposed trade agreement with Japan and 10 other countries in ...

WASHINGTON For years, the dollar's role as the major global currency has been termed an exorbitant privilege — a phrase coined by French Finance Minister and later President Valery Giscard dEstaing. Now it may be turning into an extravagant ...

Sys­temic eco­nomic decline begets credit con­trac­tion, leading to defla­tion, cur­rency wars and finally, phys­icalwar. In 2002, one noted econ­o­mist wrote Ignore the ghost of defla­tion. Another stated that Defla­tion is an overblown ...