The tumultuous presidential election in Brazil comes to a mudslinging head on October 4, when Brazilians choose between the two leading candidates, incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Fl...

The global financial system is undergoing significant structural change, raising new questions about global imbalances, the future role of the dollar, and the stability of international financial mark...

Join us for a debate on the future of China’s economic growth and whether greater household consumption is essential to sustainable rebalancing.

President Donald Trump started his second term in office with momentous plans to change US trade policy to achieve various economic and nontrade related aims. This timeline tracks the development of t...

Ambassador Alan Wolff says President Donald Trump’s novel implementation of America’s tariff law is illegal and runs counter to how Congress intended the presidential power to be used.

President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico is about to complete the first two years of her six-year term. She has just sent her third budget to Congress, and midterm elections are a year away. The picture ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms the workplace, which jobs will remain valuable—and what makes them resistant to automation? Economist Luis Garicano, coauthor of Messy Jobs: The Work that AI...

As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms the workplace, which jobs will remain valuable—and what makes them resistant to automation? Economist Luis Garicano, coauthor of Messy Jobs: The Work that AI...

President Donald Trump and the prime ministers of Denmark and Greenland this week signed an agreement allowing the US military's continued presence on the Arctic island, which should help avoid future...

The Peterson Institute holds an in-depth conversation featuring perspectives from leading economists and a senior policymaker on one of the most consequential economic policy challenges facing the Uni...

The Peterson Institute holds an in-depth conversation featuring perspectives from leading economists and a senior policymaker on one of the most consequential economic policy challenges facing the Uni...

President Trump and China’s Leader Xi Jinping are meeting this week. Chad Bown, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, previews what to expect from that meeting.

The Trump-Xi summit gives Washington a chance to buy time.

As Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping prepare for their September 24 summit, what can new economic analyses tell us about the direction of US-China economic relations, as well as the likely impact...

The Trump-Xi summit gives Washington a chance to buy time.

The election of New York mayor Zohran Mamdani and the surprising performance of Democratic Socialist or DSA-aligned candidates in Democratic primaries across the United States is reviving interest in ...

The Trump-Xi summit gives Washington a chance to buy time.

This summer marks the worst period for US statistical integrity since President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last August. Two different and seemingly uncoordinated eve...

Washington, DC—The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) is pleased to announce that Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, former economic counsellor and director of the research department at th...

Restrictive US government policies since 2025 have reduced international student enrollment in US universities and made it harder for foreign graduates to work in the United States. This shift, if sus...

Through equity ownership and trade agreements, President Donald Trump has sought to control minerals extracted abroad. He appears to harbor two goals: first, ensure a guaranteed supply of the minerals...

The extraordinary oil deal with Venezuela forged in August—in which the United States gains access to about 20 percent of proven Venezuelan oil reserves, secured by a puppet government beholden to Pre...

The Iran war has damaged the economies of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE, which have made ambitious investment commitments to the United States. The war has weakened their finances, growth prospects...

The election of New York mayor Zohran Mamdani and the surprising performance of Democratic Socialist or DSA-aligned candidates in Democratic primaries across the United States is reviving interest in ...

The election of New York mayor Zohran Mamdani and the surprising performance of Democratic Socialist or DSA-aligned candidates in Democratic primaries across the United States is reviving interest in ...

The election of New York mayor Zohran Mamdani and the surprising performance of Democratic Socialist or DSA-aligned candidates in Democratic primaries across the United States is reviving interest in ...

The Trump administration’s initial six-figure charge for some H-1B workers led to a sharp drop in demand from the program’s biggest users in the IT staffing and tech industries.

Washington, DC—The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) announced that Chang Yong Rhee, former governor of the Bank of Korea, has joined PIIE as a nonresident senior fellow, bringing ...

The US National Weather Service has announced the arrival of an El Niño, the warm phase the Central Pacific warming and cooling cycle that affects weather across the globe. The odds favor a "very stro...

President Trump's trade war with Canada comes as Americans keep the economy top of mind heading into the midterm elections.

The Trump administration’s initial six-figure charge for some H-1B workers led to a sharp drop in demand from the program’s biggest users in the IT staffing and tech industries.

The Trump administration has mounted many varied claims to support its trade war, but a central argument is that foreigners, not US citizens, pay the price for tariffs. As discussed in our first blog,...

It is widely known that global use of China's currency, the yuan, rose substantially in 2023–24 following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as sanctions and the related reordering of Russian trade drove g...

The world is used to American tariff news daily. A new target is chosen, a new reason is put forward, another legal authority is selected, and a new tariff is put in place, ostensibly to force concess...

"It was not the United States, but China, that undermined the rules-based trade order. We have simply failed to fully acknowledge that fact." Chad Bow