Fiscal policy should balance growth, equity, and sustainability concerns, including protecting society's most vulnerable.

Having a proper understanding of countries' external positions - current accounts, stock positions, and currencies - is critical to highlight policymakers' shared responsibility to tackle external imbalances before they become too risky.

In reality, while currency movements can have a significant impact on inflation in other countries, dollar movements have rarely had a meaningful or durable impact on prices in the U.S.

With all the globalisation that has taken place, countries are a lot more interdependent and therefore 'coupled.'

The AAP was not the first group of well-meaning outsiders in politics.

The Brexit vote, the presidential elections in the U.S., a number of the other regional political movements - that's not a flash in the pan.

There have been two periods in my lifetime when the excitement of government and of public issues drew to Washington many of the bright young people graduating from colleges and law schools. These were essentially the Roosevelt and the Kennedy years.

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.