Liz Rosenberg on the Financial Crime Insights podcast, “What’s in Store for Sanctions?”
“No matter who wins, the US sanctions strategy is sure to be impacted by the upcoming election. How will the results affect Washington’s current favoured foreign policy tool? Emil Dall speaks with Elizabeth Rosenberg of the Center for New American Security, Nicholas Turner of Steptoe & Johnson Hong Kong and
Read MoreLiz Rosenberg interviewed on the European Council on Foreign Relations podcast, “How Can the EU Strike Back? The Way Towards Higher Economic Resilience”
“In this week’s episode, host Mark Leonard is joined by Elizabeth Rosenberg, Senior Fellow and Director of the Energy, Economics, and Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, Jean Pisani-Ferry, ECFR Council Member and a senior fellow at Brussels-based think-tank Bruegel and Jonathan Hackenbroich, ECFR policy fellow
Read MoreJay Shambaugh writes for Brookings: “Don’t Let Flashy 3rd Quarter GDP Growth Fool You, The Economy Is Still in A Big Hole”
“When Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth data for the third quarter of 2020 is released on October 29, it will almost certainly break records. Many analysts project growth over 30 percent at an annual rate – roughly twice as high as any quarterly growth rate since World War II. “Yet
Read MoreLiz Rosenberg quoted in The Wall Street Journal article, “U.S. Sanctions Additional Iranian Banks”
“‘This cannot be expected to bring the regime to its knees,’ said Elizabeth Rosenberg, a former Treasury sanctions official now at the Center for a New American Security. ‘Iranian leaders have been very clear that they will turn to barter and illegal arrangements than capitulate under economic pressure…’” Read the
Read MoreJay Shambaugh quoted in Marketplace article, “Without More Relief Spending, the Recovery’s Likely to Stall”
“One of the biggest infusions was $600-a-week in extra unemployment payments to more than 20 million jobless Americans. That expired in mid-summer, and the amount of cash going out to laid-off workers cratered, according to Jay Shambaugh, an economist at George Washington University. “‘It fell from $110 [billion] in July
Read MoreMeghan O’Sullivan writes in The Japan Times: “After Oil: Throwing Money at Green Energy Isn’t Enough”
“The geopolitical and geo-economic forces wrought by the coronavirus pandemic are likely to slow the transition to a more sustainable global energy mix. Fortunately, the pandemic has also resulted in governments gaining vastly greater influence over whether this shift stalls or accelerates…” Read the full article here: Full Article
Read MoreLiz Rosenberg quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald article, “Tehran ‘Ready’ To Swap All Prisoners With US, Despite New Sanctions”
“Elizabeth Rosenberg, a sanctions expert at the Centre for a New American Security, said that action did not significantly ‘move the needle.’ “‘The United States has already significantly targeted Iran, and this new action doesn’t … cause much more significant pain,’ she said…” Read the full article here: Full Article
Read MoreLiz Rosenberg quoted in The Wall Street Journal article, “Leaked Treasury Documents Prompt Fresh Calls for Updated Anti-Money-Laundering Regulations”
“‘The FinCEN files illustrate the alarming truth that an enormous amount of illicit money is sloshing around our financial system, and that U.S. banks play host and facilitator to rogues and criminals that represent some of America’s most insidious national security threats,’ said Elizabeth Rosenberg, a former Treasury sanctions official.
Read MoreJay Shambaugh writes in The New York Times: “People Need Money Now. A $1.5 Trillion Deal Can Make It Happen”
“The pandemic brought on the most quick and severe recession that the United States has ever experienced. The economy shed over 22 million jobs in just two months, and contracted at an annualized rate of 32 percent in the second quarter…” Read the full article here: Full Article
Read MoreMeghan O’Sullivan writes in Bloomberg: “Pandemic Is Hurting, Not Helping, Green Energy”
“For most people, there was nothing to celebrate when the International Monetary Fund downgraded its outlook for global economic growth in June, anticipating a contraction of 4.9% for 2020. Yet for others, such as the small but persistent group of economists and others known as the ‘degrowth movement,’ the Covid-induced
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