The second event in the AEI series discussing global economic architecture.

At the beginning of June, Rodrigo Rato assumes the helm of the International Monetary Fund as its new managing director. He does so at a time when major global economic imbalances are contributing to exchange rate instability and when higher global interest rates could pose difficulties for the larger emerging...

There is a disconnect between U.S. policymakers' sense of what global rules of economic conduct ought to say and what they actually say, and a meeting with a pre-set mandate to address imbalances would offer the best opportunity to defuse some of those festering tensions.

Do true good and true evil exist?

In his new book, Global Financial Warriors: The Untold Story of International Finance in the Post-9/11 World (W. W. Norton, January 2007), John Taylor recounts his experiences on the financial frontlines as under secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs from 2001 to 2005. During his tenure at the Treasury,...