Vietnam at the Crossroads: The Impact of U.S. and China Tariffs on Manufacturing and Trade
As trade tensions between the U.S. and its global partners escalate under newly imposed tariffs, Vietnam finds itself both vulnerable and uniquely positioned to seize emerging opportunities. Dr. Jayant Menon, a seasoned trade economist and Visiting Senior Fellow at Singapore’s ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, unpacked this complex landscape in a recent webcast that explored the impact […]
The Inflation Reduction Act: What Drugmakers Should Know
The Inflation Reduction Act is one of the Biden administration’s signature pieces of legislation, and its drug pricing provisions should bring major changes to America’s pharmaceutical industry. New rules will likely affect the bottom lines of drugmakers, trim margins for pharmacy benefit managers, and lower out-of-pocket costs for Medicare beneficiaries. But changing the intricacies of […]
Brazil after Lula’s Return: What Lies Ahead?
Now leading Brazil for a third time, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva — known by everyone in his country simply by his nickname, Lula — faces challenges far different from those he encountered as President in back-to-back terms that ended in 2010. For a look at what may lie ahead, GLG’s Conor Akin hosted a […]
What Labor’s Win Means for Australia
For just the fourth time since WWII, Australia voted for the Labor Party to take over the government. However, Australians don’t anticipate much from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s young administration. That’s by design. Albanese and Labor followed a standard playbook for an opposition party win. They basically said they wouldn’t make any sweeping changes from […]
Russian Sanctions Will Have Global Repercussions
Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine triggered an unprecedented set of financial restrictions and export controls from the West that are meant to cripple the aggressor nation’s economy and make its war effort unsustainable. The powerful sanctions regime, led by the United States, landed during an already tumultuous time for global supply chains. Countries are just […]
Putin Has Already Changed the Global Order
Vladimir Putin has initiated the remaking of the world order. This has been his pattern since his time as a KGB officer in Dresden, East Germany. In 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, Vladimir Putin requested military support from Moscow but obtained no answer. Of this, he said: “I got the feeling that the country […]
What’s Next for Putin and Ukraine?
People who say Russian President Vladimir Putin is pushing us toward World War III are not exaggerating. If he gets his way in Ukraine, Putin will likely go further and launch an operation against a NATO member state. Putin wants to break the organization by challenging its Article 5 commitment to defend all NATO countries. […]
Russia, Ukraine, and the Impact on the World’s Food Supply
The conflict raging between Russia and Ukraine has helped drive grain and food-oil prices to historic highs. More price increases are on the horizon if the war continues, especially when it comes to wheat, oilseeds, and corn. But it’s not all about Ukraine. The outlook for grain and food oil was already challenging. Since the […]
Demystifying the Russian Sanctions
The sanctions placed on Russia by the West in response to its aggression in Ukraine represent the biggest, most complex sanctions ever placed on a country. Measures from the United States alone are painful and include a host of different tools that target Russian banks, Russian exports, and some Russian individuals. When combined with sanction […]
Putin’s Aggression Will Test Russia’s Energy Supply Dominance
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggressive military moves on the Ukrainian border seem like a show of strength for Russia. But it’s possible that his war posturing could backfire and hasten the demise of Russia’s economy, starting with its energy dominance in Europe. How it all plays out has a lot to do with Russia’s next […]
Analyzing Australia’s Response to COVID-19
How has Australia responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and the delta variant, and how is it positioned to deal with the pandemic’s evolving challenges? To find out, GLG recently held a remote roundtable with two public health experts: Dr. Stephen Ostroff, a longtime senior official at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and […]
Jeb Bush and Martin O’Malley on Reopening After COVID-19
The first vaccines in the United States were given in December 2020, followed by the rollout of what is probably the largest immunization campaign in history. Since that time, approximately 150,424,675 or 45% of Americans have been immunized. In May, President Biden set the goal of delivering at least one shot to 70% of adult […]