Category: Content Series

An Important Week in Washington and Brussels as Round 7 Starts

By Global Business & Economics Program

There is a lot going on this week with regards to TTIP on both sides of the Atlantic. Yesterday, the European Parliament started their hearings to interview the nominees for the new Commission, beginning with Trade Commissioner-designate Cecilia Malmström. Hearings are scheduled to proceed until October 7, after which the European Parliament will vote to […]

Is the Armored Vehicle Industry Shifting Away from the United States?

By James Hasik

Russian threats and US economizing may be driving the business north and east.   Earlier this month, investors’ website the Motley Fool called the recently-announced alliance between France’s Nexter and Germany’s KMW the possible “birth of a European tank-building superpower” and “General Dynamics’ new challenger”. All the same, in a recent essay for the Lexington Institute, Dan Gouré argues that General […]

How to Stiff-Arm Transatlantic Economic Integration

By James Hasik

Rosa DeLauro’s HR 5581 is a very bad bill indeed.   Last week, the Wall Street Journal carried a long story—”German Firms Go on U.S. Buying Spree”—about the $70 billion they have spent this year acquiring businesses in the United States. That figure is second only to Canadian activity–another $77 billion so far—and indicates just how economies on […]

Get the latest on TTIP before next week’s 7th negotiating Round

Who’s Who & Who’s New? Now that incoming European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has announced his appointees for the next Commission, TTIP Action will introduce several of the new commissioners, their portfolios, and their role in the European Union over the course of the next several weeks. Today’s edition introduces Pierre Moscovici, the designated Commissioner […]

Three JLTVs, Three Strategies

By James Hasik

Different displays of similar vehicles reveal the structural heterogeneity of the defense industry.   At this week’s Modern Day Marine show at Quantico, the three companies vying for the US Army and Marine Corps’ Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) contract brought splashy displays. Walking the floor and reading the brochures, it was easy to see how […]

Brummer: The Challenges of Releasing the Redback

By Chris Brummer

C. Boyden Gray Fellow on Global Growth and Finance Chris Brummer writes for the International Financial Law Review on the implications of the Chinese currency’s entrance into international markets: 

Taking Jointness Too Far

By James Hasik

The GAO’s review of the 2005 BRAC sharply indicts consolidation for consolidation’s sake.   Almost everywhere but in Congress—and in the towns around the gates of garrisons—interest in another Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) round remains high. Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta wanted a round in 2013. In his valedictory interview this year with Defense News, Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale insisted that […]

Public Sector Investment and its Impact on the World Economy

By The Atlantic Council

On Monday, September 22, Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Finance Initiative (TFI) and the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) will be hosting a high-level panel discussion at the Atlantic Council’s headquarters in Washington, DC. The event will also launch OMFIF’s new publication Global Public Investor (GPI) 2014.