76 Caroline Freund on the Decline in Global Trade and Trumps Trade Policy

Published: Sept. 25, 2017, 10:28 a.m.

b'Caroline Freund is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE). Previously, she served as the chief economist for the Middle East and North Africa at the World Bank. She joins the show to discuss her career in trade policy and her work on the slowdown in global trade since the Great Recession. Finally, she also shares her thought on President Trump\\u2019s trade policies. David\\u2019s blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com/ Macro Musings podcast site: macromusings.com David\\u2019s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth Caroline\\u2019s PIIE profile: https://piie.com/experts/senior-research-staff/caroline-freund?author_id=906 Caroline\\u2019s Bloomberg archive: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/contributors/AQnL_eq2K8M/caroline-freund Caroline\\u2019s Twitter: @CarolineFreund Related links: *Rich People, Poor Countries: The Rise of Emerging-Market Tycoons and Their Mega Firms* by Caroline Freund (assisted by Sarah Oliver) https://piie.com/bookstore/rich-people-poor-countries-rise-emerging-market-tycoons-and-their-mega-firms \\u201cThe Global Trade Slowdown and Secular Stagnation\\u201d by Caroline Freund https://piie.com/blogs/trade-investment-policy-watch/global-trade-slowdown-and-secular-stagnation \\u201cInvest in minds, not miners\\u201d by Caroline Freund and Christine McDaniel https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-06/the-u-s-needs-to-invest-in-minds-not-miners \\u201cU.S. Needs Trade Deals, Not \\u2018Remedies\\u2019\\u201d by Caroline Freund https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-14/u-s-needs-china-trade-deals-not-remedies \\u201cThe China Shock: Learning from Labor Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade\\u201d by David H. Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon H. Hanson http://www.nber.org/papers/w21906 "Trump\'s Trade Pullout Roils Rural America" by Adam Behsudi http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/07/trump-tpp-deal-withdrawal-trade-effects-215459'