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William R. Rhodes

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William R. Rhodes, President of William R. Rhodes Global Advisers LLC, is Co-Chair of the Bretton Woods Committee’s Sovereign Debt Working Group, a former chairman and CEO of Citibank, and the author of Banker to the World: Leadership Lessons From the Front Lines of Global Finance (McGraw Hill, 2011).

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  1. Meeting Global Challenges Requires Financial Innovation
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    Meeting Global Challenges Requires Financial Innovation

    Aug 7, 2024 William R. Rhodes & John Lipsky tout the potential of state-contingent debt instruments to encourage private investment in public goods.

  2. How the Sino-American Rivalry Is Reshaping the World Order
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    How the Sino-American Rivalry Is Reshaping the World Order

    Jun 7, 2024 William R. Rhodes & Stuart P.M. Mackintosh warn that global forums and solutions will be among the biggest losers of a deepening superpower conflict.

  3. The Global Order’s Triple Policy Challenge
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    The Global Order’s Triple Policy Challenge

    Aug 22, 2023 William R. Rhodes & John Lipsky outline several steps that governments could take to encourage capital inflows to emerging economies.

  4. Who Is to Blame for the New Banking Crisis?
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    Who Is to Blame for the New Banking Crisis?

    Mar 16, 2023 William R. Rhodes & Stuart P.M. Mackintosh consider the role that deregulation played in the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.

  5. Does the G20 Have a Future?
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    Does the G20 Have a Future?

    Jun 13, 2022 William R. Rhodes & Stuart P.M. Mackintosh doubt that the group can continue to serve a constructive role amid rising geopolitical tensions.

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    Trump at the Gates

    Joschka Fischer urges Europeans to recognize that they are now on their own in an increasingly dangerous world.
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    The End of Progress?

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Though the United States has long led the world in advancing basic science and technology, it is hard to see how this can continue under President Donald Trump and the country’s ascendant oligarchy. America’s rejection of Enlightenment values will have dire consequences.

     predicts that Donald Trump’s second administration will be defined by its rejection of Enlightenment values.
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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Will the China hawks in Donald Trump’s administration railroad him into a confrontation that transcends tariffs and embraces financial sanctions of the type the US and the European Union imposed on Russia? If they do, China's leaders will have to decide whether to decouple from the dollar-based international monetary system.

     thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.
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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.

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