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A US flag flies off the stern of a tour boat at the Port of Los Angele in California on July 31, 2025. (Getty Images)
Economics
Economics
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Opening day of the 114th Congress, January, 06, 2015 (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Paramilitary policemen patrol in front of Tiananmen Gate on November 17, 2013 in Beijing, China. (Feng Li/Getty Images)
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Australian Governor General Peter Cosgrove (R) with China's President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan, as she holds a wombat in the grounds of Government House on November 17, 2014 in Canberra, Australia. (David Gray - Pool/Getty Images)
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A man dressed as Santa Claus drives his old Fiat 500 in the Piazza Venezia in central on December 23, 2014. (FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Experts
Alexander Aibel
Research Associate
Alexander Benard
Adjunct Fellow
