How to Lose Friends and Alienate Your Allies
On March 8, US President Donald Trump defied sage economic advice and followed his political gut by signing tariffs on imported steel (25%) and aluminum […]
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Trade or No Trade: China’s DPRK Dilemma
Nuclear weapons expert and founder of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), David Albright, recently published a damaging report about Shenyang Machine Tools […]
KORUS FTA: An Uncertain Future
One of Donald Trump’s favorite targets on the campaign trail were trade deals. Last fall he said, “We are killing ourselves with trade pacts.” Now […]
Rhinoceros Poaching: A Pressing Problem
An average rhinoceros, armed with a large horn and protective skin 1.5 cm thick, can grow to a thousand kilograms. In 2015, no fewer than […]
How Trump is somewhat right about globalization
At his inauguration, Donald Trump made remarks few would expect from the President of the United States. Standing in front of the Capitol, Trump echoed […]
Choosing Sides: The Former TPP
The largest trade deal in history died before it could live. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) took years to negotiate and the finished product was going […]
FTAs in East Asia: Economic integration or spheres of influence?
In the past few years the rhetorical back and forth between China and the US over economic institutional governance has intensified. Along with concerns over […]
Can Saudi Arabia Avoid Total Collapse?
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is in a bit of a pickle. 90% of their revenue comes from oil, the price of which plummeted by […]
Bitcoin in China: The RMB is no longer the yuan and only currency
What do the bailout of Cyprus and the Lushan earthquake in April 2013 have in common? They both drew the attention of Chinese eyes to […]
Nigeria, the Troubled Economic Giant
The Modern Portfolio Theory in the early 1970s argued that investors should invest in Asian and Latin American stock markets that are less intertwined with […]