The William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
The William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
Seeking to understand how local politics, global economics and international finance combine to produce the uncertain world that we all inhabit.
The William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
Seeking to understand how local politics, global economics and international finance combine to produce the uncertain world that we all inhabit.
Podcasts and Webcasts
Please visit the Rhodes Center YouTube channel to watch videos of our past events. Additionally we have our own podcast series, The Rhodes Center Podcast, which is focused on interviews with our fellows and visitors.
For Students
Take a look at the list of interdisiplinary courses relevant to the Rhodes Center mission for Fall 2024
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The Fed’s not making a profit (by Brendan Greeley)
In these unusual times, Congress and the White House should be clear what they plan to do about a loss.
Who are the winners and losers when it comes to inflation? NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Mark Blyth, a political economist at Brown University, about the impact of President Trump's tariffs.
Ten years ago, trillions of dollars of advanced-economy government debt traded at a negative real interest rate. Deflation, not inflation, was the euro zone’s main problem, and central bank researchers wondered where all the inflation had gone. They found it again in Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine. Inflation had merely been dormant, not dead, we discovered. Now President Donald Trump’s tariffs augur still-higher prices.