Hoover Institution fellow Raghuram Rajan discusses the steady rollback of the accommodative monetary policy by global central banks amid robust economic growth.

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The new Supplement for Curtis A. Bradley and Jack Goldsmith, Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials (6th ed. 2017), is now available. These materials update the casebook, and in particular address litigation over the Trump administration’s executive orders relating to its “travel ban,” the administration’s announcement that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement, the debates and litigation concerning “sanctuary jurisdictions,” President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and legal issues raised by various U.S. missile strikes in Syria and by the military detention of a U.S. citizen who was allegedly fighting on behalf of the Islamic State.

On October 3, 2017, President Donald Trump impulsively waded into the current imbroglio over Puerto Rican debt with the off-handed comment on Fox News: “They owe a lot of money to your friends on Wall Street, and we’re going to have to wipe that out. You can say goodbye to that. I don’t know if it’s Goldman Sachs, but whoever it is, you can wave goodbye to that.”