Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics

The global economy appears to be in good health, but beneath the surface important shifts are underway. China is challenging US leadership in many arenas. Unprecedented loose monetary policy continues to underpin growth in advanced economies, while fiscal policy remains inconsistent. Trade tensions threaten economic expansion. Inequality between and within countries is on the rise. The economic performance of just one country can affect economies across the world, making it important to promote sustainable and inclusive growth everywhere.

Deficits don’t matter? That’s too good to be true!

New Atlanticist
Jan 3, 2023

Five trends to watch in 2023 as the global economy tries a dangerous reboot

By
Josh Lipsky

With each trend, policymakers can focus on a return to the status quo or build something different, and better, this year.

China
Economy & Business

Deficits don’t matter? That’s too good to be true!

Econographics
Feb 21, 2023

Offensive friendshoring and deteriorating US-China relations

By
Hung Tran

The increasingly offensive use of an offensive US friendshoring policy will make it more challenging to manage US-China strategic competition

China
Economy & Business

Deficits don’t matter? That’s too good to be true!

New Atlanticist
Feb 23, 2023

The big questions (and answers) about Ajay Banga’s nomination to lead the World Bank

By
Atlantic Council experts

What to know about the former Mastercard chief executive officer’s surprise nomination to lead the World Bank.

Economy & Business
Fiscal and Structural Reform

Content

New Atlanticist

Apr 26, 2019

Deficits don’t matter? That’s too good to be true!

By Hung Tran

To most of us, saying deficits don't matter seems too good to be true—and it is.

Macroeconomics United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Apr 5, 2019

The spark that launched Brexit has returned and could torpedo compromise

By Barbara C. Matthews

Serious efforts by EU regulators to extend their standards extraterritorially into London could easily provide pro-Brexit policy makers in London one more reason to resist compromise.

Economy & Business European Union

In the News

Mar 28, 2019

Manning in GlobalAsia: Techno-Nationalism vs. the Fourth Industrial Revolution

By Atlantic Council

Cybersecurity Defense Technologies

New Atlanticist

Mar 20, 2019

Italy’s embrace of China’s Belt and Road Initiative comes with risks and opportunity

By Andrea Montanino

Instead of criticizing Italy, the EU and the United States should seize this opportunity to reinforce their alliance.

China European Union

UkraineAlert

Mar 4, 2019

Why do so few presidential candidates support NATO and EU membership?

By Taras Kuzio

Out of forty-two candidates who are running for president in the Ukrainian elections on March 31, only eleven support NATO and EU membership. This represents a lower proportion of supporters than the over 300 deputies who voted on three occasions to change the constitution to include those two goals. Batkivshchina (Fatherland) party and the Radical […]

Defense Policy Elections

Event Recap

Mar 4, 2019

Zimbabwe’s finance minister discusses reform agenda

By Africa Center

On Monday, March 4, the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center hosted a discussion with H.E. Dr. Mthuli Ncube, minister of finance and economic development of the Republic of Zimbabwe. Focusing on Zimbabwe’s short-term stabilization plan, Ncube presented the progress made on key economic reforms since he was appointed to the finance ministry by President Emmerson Mnangagwa […]

Africa Economy & Business

UkraineAlert

Jan 21, 2019

Ukraine emerges from isolation

By James Brooke

Transportation links provide advance warnings as to where a society is going physically and mentally. Until five years ago, all of Ukraine’s roads led to Moscow. Now they go west. On land, more Ukrainians traveled by train to Europe than to Russia last year for the first time since Czarist railroads were built in the […]

Macroeconomics Russia

Inflection Points

Jan 13, 2019

The five historic shifts that will shape 2019

By Frederick Kempe

The treacherous year ahead that we confront – littered with political, economic and security risks – presents all the challenges of a double black diamond ski run.

International Norms Macroeconomics

New Atlanticist

Jan 2, 2019

Washington and Its Friends Are More United Than You Think

By Damon Wilson

Notwithstanding occasional feuds among our leaders, the United States and its democratic allies around the world agree that the great challenge of the 21st century will be the competition between the free world and authoritarian corrupt state-led capitalism.

China International Norms

Blogs

Dec 21, 2018

Economic Outlook for 2019

By Global Business & Economics Program

December 2018 is set to become the worst year-end finish for US markets since 1931. A yield curve inversion combined with the fourth annual rate hike by the US Federal Reserve (Fed) and growing geo-political uncertainty, triggered widespread angst among US investors about an economic slowdown and the increasing probability of a recession. This edition of the EconoGraphic assesses key economic indicators to make a case that while a slowing of the US economy seems certain, a recession in the next two years remains unlikely.

China Economy & Business
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Experts

Fellow

Victoria Chonn-Ching

Nonresident Fellow

Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center

Americas China

Advisory Council member

Alejo Czerwonko

Member, Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center Advisory Council

Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center Millennium Leadership Program

Economy & Business English

Millennium fellow

Kate Dunbar

Head of Macro Research, Bridgewater Associates

Millennium Leadership Program

Americas Economy & Business

Fellow

Eric Fine

Nonresident Senior Fellow, MENA Futures Lab

Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East

Dollar Dominance Economy & Business

Fellow

Nik Foster

Nonresident Fellow

Global China Hub

China Energy & Environment

Fellow

Jérémie Gallon

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Europe Center

Economy & Business English
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