Monetizing Primacy: A virtual panel with Karthik Sankaran, Brad Setser, and Mona Ali
Please join us on Thursday, July 31 at 12:00 pm ET for a discussion on Trumponomics, dollar diplomacy, and multipolarity.
Discussion will center around Karthik Sankaran’s recent piece in Phenomenal World, Monetizing Primacy. Panelists will discuss the US’s current attempts to use the size of its domestic market as a lever to reorder world trade and investment patterns, to recalibrate its global defense footprint, to preserve the centrality of the dollar, and to hold down US interest rates.
Speakers:
- Karthik Sankaran (Senior Research Fellow, Quincy Institute)
- Brad Setser (Senior Fellow, CFR)
- Mona Ali (Associate Professor of Economics, SUNY New Paltz)
Moderator: Michael Stynes (CEO, the Jain Family Institute)
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