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Title: Topical Issues


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Topical Issues
  • Garten, The Global Economic Challenge
  • Steil, The End of National Currency

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US global economic priorities?
  • Geoeconomic problems have geopolitical
    significance pay greater attention to them
    (involvement commensurate with US power and US
    interests)
  • Need for international cooperation (incl. support
    for international institutions)
  • Promotion of democracy/free market?
  • Need to maintain confidence in need to
    abandon reckless fiscal policies
  • Potential social costs to the US?

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End of national currency?
  • Monetary sovereignty/nationalism is a dangerous
    delusion causes financial instability
  • Alternative reconnect the value of money to a
    real asset abandon unwanted currencies
  • If governments dont accept the imposition of
    fiscal prudence money can be privatized
  • US needs to reestablish long-term fiscal
    discipline
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