Friday’s release of US non-farm payrolls for the month of March was a disastrous starting point for the downturn in the US labour market. The survey was expected to show a decline in...
Economic policy uncertainty is at unprecedented levels due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In previous research, I highlighted the role of economic policy uncertainty in driving cross-border trade and investment, but also exchange rates...
As the United States federal government works to mobilise against the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States Armed Forces are set to assume an increasingly higher role in the response.
In a new research...
Coming from one of Australia's leading economic journalists author of The Kingdom and the Quarry: China, Australia, Fear and Greed, and co-author, with Lenore Taylor, of Shitstorm: Inside Labor's Darkest Days...
Although the US federal government was slow to mobilise resources to confront the novel coronavirus, President Donald Trump and the Department of Defense on March 17 began taking several significant steps – including...
Anyone trying to predict the precise contours of the geopolitical landscape in the wake of the coronavirus crisis would do well to remember the warnings of the Italian poet Dante. In the 20th...
In an increasingly contested Indo-Pacific, the United States, Australia and their regional allies and partners face a myriad of strategic challenges that cut across every level of the competitive space. Driven by China’s...
The US Studies Centre's chief executive officer Professor Simon Jackman believes US President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic will impact and determine the outcome of the upcoming presidential election in November...
America's early response to the coronavirus has been "completely uncoordinated" according to the US Studies Centre's non-resident fellow James Brown in this interview on Sky.
In a period of isolation, many Australians and Americans are having fewer and fewer interactions with the outside world. When a person's visual horizons have largely shrunk to boundaries of their home and...
Death is on the President’s mind. On Tuesday in the White House briefing room, Donald Trump said: “Our country is in the midst of a great national trial unlike anything we have faced...
