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September 11, 2012

Education
Latino Immigrants and Entrepreneurialism: A World of Opportunity

If there’s any issue in the immigration debate on which there is a broad consensus, it is that everyone wins when immigrants come to the United States and start new businesses. Successful entrepreneu…

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Blog Post by Edward Alden Renewing America

April 13, 2012

Education
President Bill Clinton on Inequality, Exports, and America's Future

Former President Bill Clinton has always had an impressive ability to explain complicated issues in a way that leaves his audience thinking, “duh, of course”--even if they’d never quite had the same …

Former President Bill Clinton in a recent speech (Fredy Builes/Courtesy Reuters
Blog Post by Edward Alden Renewing America

March 22, 2006

United States
Not priced in

David Bassanese recently wrote in the Australian Financial review: "Provided inflation remains benign, the goods news is that the US economy does not appear to be facing many downside risks, and its …

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

January 19, 2005

I guess I am a secret Austrian too

And I thought I was just a former Treasury staff economist with an unhealthy obsession with how the US is funding its enormous trade and current account deficits, and more willingness than most to sp…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

December 31, 2008

Financial Markets
Relitigating 1998 at the end of 2008

Tyler Cowen argues that the “Committee to Save the World” made a mistake in 1998 by, well, saving the financial world. They thus missed an opportunity to teach the banks a lesson in sound risk-manag…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money