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Wide World of Cyber: A deep dive on the F5 hack

In this edition of the Wide World of Cyber podcast Patrick Gray talks to Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos about the F5 incide...

The War Room newsletter: Three lessons from a spy scandal

Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, looks at an espionage fiasco in Britain

The icy cold war America is busy losing

Its weakest flank isn’t Greenland, but around Alaska

Risky Business #810 -- Data extortion attacks have a silver lining

In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: FBI intervenes in Sc...

China tries shock-and-awe on Donald Trump

Xi Jinping’s bet that dramatic escalation is the way to win a trade war

Europe struggles to put homeland defence first

Years of expeditionary operations leave it vulnerable if America abandons the continent

The Economist today newsletter: What happens when migrants stop coming?

We are witnessing a turning point in migration, writes Adam Roberts, our digital editor

Risky Business #809 -- Hackers try to pay a journalist for access to the BBC

On this week’s show Patrick Gray is on holiday so Amberleigh Jack and Adam Boileau hijack the studio to discuss the week...

Can the West survive an age of brinkmanship?

It is time to relearn the cold-war arts of escalation management

The flashing red threat from Russia’s dark fleet

NATO navies struggle to contain a new danger on the seas

The War Room newsletter: The best tanks of all time

In a bonus edition of our defence newsletter, Richard Cockett examines an icon from the battlefield

Europe’s astonishing drop in illegal migration

Europe’s big, invisible wall is slowing boat crossings by migrants

Risky Business #808 -- Insane megabug in Entra left all tenants exposed

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and special guest Rob Joyce discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Secret Se...

A made-in-China plan for world domination

Donald Trump is failing to stop China’s rise as a manufacturing superpower

The War Room newsletter: Why Trump wants a Taliban air base back

The president’s neo-imperial worldview has something to do with it, according to Shashank Joshi, our defence editor

The UN’s grim future 

Going rogue, decay or Trumpification

Risky Business #807 -- Shai-Hulud npm worm wreaks old-school havoc

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Shai-Hulud worm prop...

Cold war deterrence doesn’t work any more

Why the West is finding it so hard to deter China and Russia

Top Gun—without Maverick

Drones ride into the danger zone

Risky Business #806 -- Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement is a big deal

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Apple ruins exploit ...

Meet the leader of Europe’s anti-Trump resistance

For Spain’s leader, Pedro Sánchez, opposing Trump is a lonely endeavour

Ukraine has been trying to bring the war to Russia. More Russians are beginning to feel it

Mali-Related Sanctions

Mali-Related SanctionsTiffany.Hyatt@… Fri, 02/28/2020 - 09:50 Sign up for Mali-Related Sanctions e-mail updates. Frequen...

Global Economic Prospects: Fall 2016

Senior Fellow David J. Stockton presented the US and global economic outlook at the Peterson Institute’s semiannual Glob...

Rethinking Trade and Reframing the Trade Debate

Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX) discussed “Rethinking Trade and Reframing the Trade Debate” on September 27, 2016, at the...

Economic Situation in Brazil and Latin America

Arminio Fraga of Gávea Investments and Robert Zoellick, chairman of Goldman Sachs’ International Advisors, spoke at the ...

Swiss-EU Pragmatism on Immigration Will Have Limited Bearing on Brexit Negotiations

The emerging notion among Brexit optimists that the United Kingdom could use Switzerland as a template for negotiating n...

Launch of Assessing Trade Agendas in the US Presidential Campaign

Yesterday, Marc Noland presented his research on the presidential candidates' trade policies that he co-authored with Sh...

Launch of Assessing Trade Agendas in the US Presidential Campaign

The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) presented a new PIIE Briefing, Assessing Trade Agendas in the ...

Vulnerability to Sanctions I: Park and Walsh

As the discussion shifts ineluctably towards sanctions in the wake of the fifth test, attention also naturally shifts to...

Launch of the Geneva Report: What Else Can Central Banks Do?

The Peterson Institute for International Economics hosted the Washington launch of the 18th Geneva Report “What Else Can...

Slave to the Blog: August Catch-Up Edition II

Yesterday, I reviewed some of the most important developments surrounding the peninsula, starting with the North Korean ...

Brazil’s Post-Impeachment Economics

Financial markets’ renewed fondness for Brazil—the country’s stock market has rallied 60 percent this year—is hard to sq...

Slave to the Blog: August Catch-Up Edition I

No sooner do we go on vacation then the world goes to hell in a handbasket. More seriously, developments on the Korean p...

Gloomy Autumn in Store for Europe

Europe is about to experience a hectic start of the political season, with more problems on its hands than at any time i...

China's New Economic Frontier: Overcoming Obstacles to Continued Growth

China's economy is at a pivotal moment, as it faces both imminent and long-term challenges that may significantly hamper...

Brazil’s Economic Malaise Rekindled as Olympic Flame Goes Out

Monica de Bolle outlines the tough economic challenges facing Brazilian acting President Michel Temer now that the Olymp...

Uneasy Calm at Fed’s Jackson Hole Conference

Adam S. Posen says the mood at the annual Economic Policy Symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City...

The sky fell on the US poultry industry last year. But NAFTA and the TPP helped protect US exports.

Migrating birds don’t pay much attention to border regulations, it turns out. But last year’s “bird flu” outbreak, a hug...

Evaluating the IMF’s Performance on Financial-Sector Aspects of the Euro Area Crisis

The Peterson Institute has posted The IMF’s Role in the Euro Area Crisis: Financial Sector Aspects on its website, and a...