Tag: Financial Times

Join Us for Conversations on Central Banking: Inflation and Monetary Policy

The Center for Inflation Research and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland invite you to attend Cleveland Fed Conversations on Central Banking, on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, from 2:00 – 2:40 pm EST. The session topic will be Inflation and Monetary Policy.

Distinguished panelists include:

Jason Furman, Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

Catherine Mann, Monetary Policy Committee Member, Bank of England

Ricardo Reis, A.W. Phillips Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science.

The session will be moderated by Colby Smith, U.S. Economics Editor, Financial Times.

View the entire agenda [archived PDF].

You must register in advance to attend. Upon registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing additional instructions to join the virtual meeting and a way to add it to your calendar.

If you have any questions, please contact Diane.Roberts@clev.frb.org.

World-Watching: Chinese Tech Groups Shaping UN Facial Recognition and Surveillance Standards

(from the Financial Times)

Chinese technology companies are shaping new facial recognition and surveillance standards at the UN, according to leaked documents obtained by the Financial Times, as they try to open up new markets in the developing world for their cutting-edge technologies.

Companies such as ZTE, Dahua and China Telecom are among those proposing new international standards — specifications aimed at creating universally consistent technology — in the UN’s International Telecommunication Union.

Read the full article [archived PDF]

Essay 88: Podcast-Alert: Cars, Steel & National Security

Listen to The Sound of Economics

Guntram Wolff is joined by Alan Beattie, the author of the FT’s new Trade Secrets newsletter, and by André Sapir, Bruegel’s very own trade expert to discuss President Trump’s tariffs and whether or not they’re working.

Bruegel has launched an updated series of the Sound of Economics, hosted by Bruegel’s Director Guntram Wolff, Deputy Director Maria Demertzis and former Economist journalist Nicholas Barrett. Subscribe on iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcasts.

Previous Episodes

How to Make the European Green Deal Work

The European Green Deal will be a defining feature of Ursula Von der Leyen’s incoming Commission. But will carbon border taxes and single carbon prices be enough to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050? This week, Nicholas Barrett and Guntram Wolff discuss Bruegel’s new paper “How to make the European Green Deal Work” [Archived PDF] with Grégory Claeys and Simone Tagliapietra. Listen here.

How Not to Spend It

Digital banking has made our lives easier, but why are people use mobile banking more likely to be overdrawn? This week Maria Demertzis and Nicholas Barrett are joined by Annamaria Lusardi, Denit Trust Endowed Chair of Economics and Accountancy from George Washington University School of Business to discuss financial literacy. Listen here.