Putin Likes His Worst Option in Ukraine by Carl Bildt

For their valuable comments, we thank seminar participants and attendees at Saint Mary’s University, St. Francis Xavier University, the 2024 Atlantic Canadian Economic Conference, and the 2023 Labor Economics Special Issue Contributors Workshop and Conference at the Ohio State University. We are grateful to Alex Hollingsworth for helpful comments. We thank Matthew McKitrick and Theresa…

To date, the seminal achievement of the 119th session of Congress was to fund the defense budget the nation needs. The momentum started by this success is now in jeopardy. Three issues frame the budgetary situation for the Pentagon during the last quarter of the fiscal year. Initially slow release and execution of the $150…

We harmonize survey data on interest rates paid by approximately 15,000 small and medium enterprises across 125 firm surveys and 285,000 households across 83 household surveys spanning developing and rich countries to study the relationship between monetary policy rates and borrowing costs faced by SMEs and households. Using within-country variation in policy rates over time,…

Thursday, February 12, 2026 GAO Stands Out in its Ability to Answer the Tough Questions. Here’s How We Do it. Before Congress makes tough policy decisions, it often comes to GAO for information. This episode looks at some of the toughest questions Congress has asked GAO to answer, and how we did it. We’ll learn…

Innovation Jul 13, 2026 Ana Palacio AI governance must account for everything from the technology’s material requirements to its effects on communities, businesses, labor markets, the environment, and strategic competition. To this end, a framework of verification-based trust—broader than national regulation and…