Marcus Noland, director of studies at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.
But there is a silver lining, says Mussa, now a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.
Morris Goldstein of the Institute for International Economics in Washington puts the risk of default before the end of 2003 as high as 70%.
"I think they need to put up a common front, " says Arvind Subramanian, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.
That argument has been made forcefully, most recently by Michael Mussa, formerly the IMF's chief economist and now at the Institute for International Economics in Washington.
According to William Cline of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC, at least 4% of the world's grain is used to make ethanol for fuel.
"Every sector had rising unemployment, every demographic, every state, with a few exceptions, " said Joseph Gagnon, a former Federal Reserve economist now at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington.
Cyprus could have only gone after non-EU depositors, but it may have been hard to distinguish between Cypriot and Russian savers, said Jacob Kirkegaard, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington.
The US will not meet the budget goals it set out to reach by 2014, said Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin during a gathering at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington DC this past weekend.
FORBES: Russian Finance Minister Kudrin Says US Won't Meet Budget Goals
Instead of focusing on jobs lost to the globalisation of information technology, Catherine Mann of the Institute for International Economics in Washington looks at globalisation's power to reduce prices and so help spread new technology, new practices and job-creating investment through the economy.
According to Martin Neil Baily, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, the "striking thing" about last year's report was that it painted a rosy view of the trade imbalance by focusing on the capital account surplus, rather than its inverse, the current account deficit.
"A halt in Chinese appreciation would play very badly politically in the United States, especially entering the election year with very slow growth and high unemployment, " said Fred Bergsten, director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a Washington D.
Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics, and other Washington cognoscenti want this U.S. intervention so our goods will be more affordable abroad.
Arvind Subramanian, an economist at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a think-tank in Washington, DC, argues that the recession in eastern Europe sounds the death knell for one of the two main growth strategies of the past 20 years capital-account liberalisation (growth through exports is the other).
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