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Media	Title	Date
	Warren Coats: The Empire and the Dollar In our multicurrency world, the U.S. dollar is widely used for pricing internationally traded goods, for international payments, and for denominating the assets governments and companies hold as reserves. Why is that and what are its implications for U.S. behavior? What would a better system look like?	Mon, Mar 28, 2022
	Anthony Elson: The Failure of Silicon Valley Bank – Are There Lessons for the Basel Regulatory Framework? The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on March 10 was a failure that should not have occurred. A confluence of factors involving regulators, SVB management, and its depositors came together in an adverse way to bring down the bank.	Fri, Mar 24, 2023
	Jason Schenker: The Fate of Asset Inflation After COVID COVID-19 was the greatest public health crisis in a century, and it engendered the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression.	Wed, Feb 24, 2021
	Barbara C. Matthews: The Fed’s New Dollar Token Policy, and Why It Matters A version of these remarks was delivered at the 5th Annual Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Summit held in Cambridge, UK on 7 September 2023 as part of the panel presentation: “The Future of Money – Stablecoins v. Central Bank Digital Currencies”	Wed, Sep 6, 2023
	Andrei Radulescu: The gap between the real and financial sides of the economy In Q1 of 2024, positive climate on financial markets consolidated due to prospects for recalibration of monetary policy across the world’s main economies. This euphoria was induced by recent developments relating to the Artificial Intelligence Revolution and the financial performance of listed companies. According to figures recently released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, profits of the companies in the US economy grew by 8.6% YoY in Q4 of 2023, the strongest pace since Q1 of 2022.	Mon, Apr 22, 2024
	Luis San Vincente Portes: The Granular Role of the Bretton Woods Committee as Mediator of the Times The architecture of the liberal world-order ---mainly that of the post-war era--- has relied on the principle of national self-determination and a rule-based framework underpinning diplomatic and economic relations.	Mon, Mar 25, 2019
	Mark Sobel: The IMF’s 80 Anniversary – A Time for Cheer and Reflection on the Future and New Terrain This year marks the 80th anniversary of the IMF’s founding, an occasion to cheer the Fund’s enormous success, examine what is working and draw lessons for the future.	Tue, Apr 9, 2024
	Laura Tyson and Harry Broadman: The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework and US-China Relations The eagerness driving the Biden administration’s launch of its Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) is perfectly understandable: the U.S. needs to raise its game and systematically tap into some of the fastest growing economies in the world. Indeed, the countries participating in developing the IPEF are states that have “good bones”: rapidly rising incomes; a workforce that is young, well-educated, and eager to hone their skills; and governments who understand that “rule of law” begets investment.	Tue, Aug 9, 2022
	Anthony Elson: The Need for WTO Reform The recent WTO Ministerial Conference MC12 that concluded on June 17 has been hailed as an important achievement of the WTO, given its agreement on a number of substantive issues that have been under discussion for some time, as listed in the MC12 Outcome Document.	Mon, Jul 18, 2022
	Barbara Matthews: The Next 75 Years – Coping with Decentralization and Geopolitical Rebalancing The Bretton Woods 75th anniversary coincides with accelerating angst regarding rising populism and growing backlash against multilateralism.	Tue, Mar 5, 2019