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Chapter 9
Kaufman and Leigh, “Global Imbalances and the COVID-19 Problem” (Links to an external
site.)
1. What type of imbalances are/were occurring due to COVID-19 and what ways can they be
rectified?
2. Does it matter that any nation runs a current account deficit or surplus?
Chapter 10
Mallaby, “What China could learn from Richard Nixon” (Links to an external site.)
1. What were some of the ways Nixon tried to prop up the U.S. economy?
2. Do we see anything like that today?
Chapter 11
Stiglitz, “America has little to teach China about a steady economy” (Links to an external site.)
1. What can help alleviate (or at least keep it from going up) U.S. trade imbalances?
2. How can an elimination of China’s trade surplus harm the U.S.?
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