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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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Trade Deals Must Allow for Regulating Finance
World leaders who are gathering for the APEC summit next week had hoped to be signing the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). The pact would bring together key Pacific-rim countries into a trading bloc that the United States hopes could counter China’s growing influence in the region.
The End of 'Financialization'
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The Lehman Crisis and the Unfinished Business of Financial Reform
With the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, a crisis in part driven by derivatives on subprime mortgages, a seemingly obscure sector of the financial market help fuel the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
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The Lehman Crisis and the Unfinished Business of Financial Reform
what have we learned from the crisis and what should we have learned?