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Does currency manipulation explain US trade deficits?
Economic experts dispute the notion that a trade imbalance implies a tilted playing field.
Should security concerns affect who’s awarded infrastructure projects?
Economic experts are divided on the wisdom of protectionism for the sake of security.
Are US households losing the trade war?
IGM’s panel of economic experts weighs in on the incidence and distributional effects of recent tariffs.
Do politics have a place in Fed appointments?
Chicago Booth’s Initiative on Global Markets invited its US panel of economic experts to express views on whether making political opinions the primary criteria for selection to the Fed would be detrimental to US monetary policy.
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