After a keynote address by Japanese Ambassador Kenichiro Sasae, a panel of trade experts will discuss Japan’s participation in the TPP, the politics of the agreement in Congress, and the likelihood that negotiations will end successfully. This event comes just one day before the next round of TPP negotiations begin in Lima, Peru.

As negotiators look for agreement in Trans-Pacific Partnership talks, success would be the most important symbol of America's economic "pivot" to Asia while its failure would have major implications on global growth.

Anyone who doubts that the euro crisis is soon to enter a new and more serious phase is simply not paying attention to Italian politics.

Japanese policymakers might learn the hard way that one must be very careful about what you wish for.

This event will explore the policy arguments from opposing perspectives on gas exports and feature a luncheon address by Indian Ambassador Nirupama Rao, who has been an advocate for US natural gas exports.

There is great lamentation these days about the state of the multilateral trading system and its institutional symbol, the World Trade Organization (WTO). The Doha Round of multilateral negotiations has now dragged on for 12 years, with no end in sight on major issues. Now, attention is focused on salvaging a "mini" outcome when WTO trade ministers meet in Bali in December.

Since 2010, there have been 16 negotiating sessions for the TPP. Talks this year represent the beginning of the 'endgame' for creating this crucial trans-Pacific economic architecture. Should the upcoming bargaining reach a stalemate during the fall, it is likely that the whole project will begin to unravel in 2014.

If ever one needed evidence that excessive money printing by the Federal Reserve and by the Bank of Japan was seriously distorting global market prices, all one need do is to look at the EUR 2 trillion Italian sovereign-debt market.