May 18, 2025
This week, EconoFact Chats features an abridged version of an EconoFact AMA webinar featuring Maurice Obstfeld, former Chief Economist at the IMF.
April 15, 2025
The U.S. has been running a trade deficit every year since 1975. However, both exports and imports have more than doubled since the beginning of this period.
July 28, 2024
Doug Irwin joins Michael Klein to discuss how ideas about free trade have changed over the last 250 years.
March 13, 2017
Access to foreign capital inflows allows the government, companies, and individuals to borrow at lower interest rates than would be the case if borrowing were limited to the domestic pool of savings.
February 9, 2022
A look at how trade benefits society — consumers, companies, and workers — but creates winners and losers, too.
December 21, 2025
Michael Klein (EconoFact), and Kadee Russ (UC Davis) discuss the current landscape of international trade, its winners and losers, and trade policies.
February 21, 2021
Paul Krugman joins Michael Klein for a discussion on globalization, trade and industrial policy, and protectionism and tariffs.