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Feb 29, 2024

Slaughter & Rees Report: Help Avenge the Murder of Alexei Navalny

How? By redoubling efforts to build trust within and among organizations’ stakeholders, say Dean Matthew J. Slaughter and coauthor Matthew Rees.

Jan 31, 2024

Slaughter & Rees Report: Will the World Get a Vote in America?

As November elections approach in America, Dean Matthew J. Slaughter and coauthor Matthew Rees call on the next U.S. president to articulate a new vision for globalization—one that doesn’t involve building more walls.

Apr 28, 2023

Slaughter & Rees Report: India’s Ascent: Will Past Be Prologue?

The Indian economy is on the rise. But its sustained progress will depend on whether it continues to pursue policies that raise labor productivity, say Dean Matthew Slaughter and coauthor Matthew Rees.

Mar 29, 2023

Slaughter & Rees Report: How Commerce Can Save the Climate

To slow the rate of global warming, Dean Matthew J. Slaughter and coauthor Matthew Rees propose a green free trade agreement.

Feb 27, 2023

Slaughter & Rees Report: The Biathlon and Business Leadership

Dean Matthew J. Slaughter and coauthor Matthew Rees discuss the values of trust and tolerance and their role in economic activity.

Jan 23, 2023

Slaughter & Rees Report: The Good Jobs America Needs Are Global Jobs

Dean Matthew J. Slaughter and coauthor Matthew Rees call on the White House and Congress to invest in creating more global jobs.

Dec 20, 2022

Slaughter & Rees Report: A Winter Holiday Wish for Our Children

Dean Matthew J. Slaughter and coauthor Matthew Rees close 2022 with a winter holiday wish: that in the new year, leaders around the world start investing more in the future of all of us—our children.

Nov 30, 2022

Slaughter & Rees Report: The Ascent of Autocracy

In their latest missive, Matthew Slaughter and Matthew Rees examine the rise of autocratic governments and the threat they pose to democracy and freedom throughout the world.

Oct 31, 2022

Slaughter & Rees Report: Anarchy in the U.K.

Recent events in the U.K. provide a sobering reminder that nations facing economic stagnation are nations ripe for anarchy, say Slaughter and Rees.

Sep 01, 2022

Slaughter & Rees Report: The Quest for the Immaculate Disinflation

In trying to slow rising inflation, U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will need to conjure the skill, composure, and luck of Terry Bradshaw during the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 1972 “Immaculate Reception,” say Slaughter and Rees.

Feb 28, 2022

Slaughter & Rees Report: Norway, Aristotle, and Ukraine

Norway flourishes in the Winter Olympics by focusing on application and effort—not on medals—say Slaughter and Rees, comparing that focus to Russia’s challenge to democracy through its invasion of Ukraine.

Jan 31, 2022

Slaughter & Rees Report: Harness Globalization to Help Whip Inflation

The challenge facing the Fed is daunting. Slaughter and Rees propose three steps policymakers can take to harness globalization and whip U.S. inflation.

Nov 30, 2021

Slaughter & Rees Report: Two Long-Term Public-Policy Lessons of the Pandemic

Dean Matthew Slaughter and coauthor Matthew Rees share two public-policy lessons of the pandemic related to globalization and public health—one optimistic, the other less so.

Oct 28, 2021

Slaughter & Rees Report: What Will Help Resolve America’s Great Resignation? Jobs Connected to the W...

As the U.S. faces the Great Resignation, Slaughter and Rees remind policymakers that the strongest jobs in America have long been those connected to the world through international trade and investment.

Jun 30, 2021

Slaughter & Rees Report: How Might Student-Athletes Get Paid to Play? Three Key Questions

Sensible reform for student-athlete compensation will first need to address three important questions informed by an accurate understanding of preexisting market structure, say Slaughter and Rees.

May 27, 2021

Slaughter & Rees Report: The Lessons of Phil at 50

Phil Mickelson’s historic victory reveals lessons about making better decisions—and the value of older workers.

Apr 22, 2021

Slaughter & Rees Report: Data Is Power

The surge in global flows of data holds great potential for the global economy, say Dean Matthew Slaughter and coauthor Matthew Rees. Yet big data remains largely ungoverned.

Mar 31, 2021

Slaughter & Rees Report: Go Big on Skilled Immigration

In their latest missive, Dean Matthew Slaughter and coauthor Matthew Rees underscore how unnecessarily costly America’s too-restrictive skilled-immigration policy is.

Feb 26, 2021

Slaughter & Rees Report: Batter Up

Did President Trump eliminate America's trio of trade deficits? Dean Matthew Slaughter and coauthor Matthew Rees weigh in and look ahead to trade policy under the Biden administration.

Jan 20, 2021

Slaughter & Rees Report: The Biden-Harris Economic Scorecard

This Inauguration Day, Dean Matthew Slaughter and coauthor Matthew Rees provide a scorecard for the heart of the American economy—workers and their families—to help clarify how to measure progress in the days ahead.

Dec 15, 2020

Slaughter & Rees Report: Puerto Rico and the Moon

While the U.S. awaits COVID-19 stimulus packages and the distribution of vaccines, Dean Matthew J. Slaughter and coauthor Matthew Rees examine two scientific landmarks from earlier this month—an optimistic one for China and a disheartening one for the United States.

Apr 30, 2020

Slaughter & Rees Report: RIP, Ed Winchester

Ed Winchester, the beloved executive director of marketing and communications at Tuck who died unexpectedly last week, was emblematic of a wise and decisive leader.

Mar 26, 2020

Slaughter & Rees Report: How to Avoid a Coronavirus Depression

In a new essay for "Foreign Affairs," Dean Matthew J. Slaughter and coauthor Matthew Rees outline a three-step policy plan to halt the coming coronavirus recession.

Feb 27, 2020

Slaughter & Rees Report: The Essential Health-Care Question Missing from the Debates

How can we make America’s health-care system more productive? It’s a key question absent from the health-care reform debate, say Slaughter and Rees.

Jan 30, 2020

Slaughter & Rees Report: The U.S.-China Trade War—The End of the Beginning

Tuck School Dean Matthew J. Slaughter and co-author Matthew Rees provide three main lessons from the U.S.-China trade war’s first phase and a potential solution for lasting peace between the world’s two largest economies.

Dec 16, 2019

Slaughter & Rees Report: Our End-of-Year Holiday Wish

Are adults—in America and around the world—failing their children? Matthew J. Slaughter and Matthew Rees share an important wish for the New Year.

May 01, 2019

Slaughter & Rees Report: Immigrants for the Heartland

America’s struggling communities are in desperate need of high-talent immigrants. We should welcome them, say Slaughter and Rees.

Mar 11, 2019

Slaughter & Rees Report: The Green New Deal and AOC

America should consider how to harness the earnestness of the Green New Deal—a resolution regarding climate change submitted by newly elected Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—without wreaking economic havoc.

Feb 11, 2019

Slaughter & Rees Report: Whither Globalization and Work?

The future of work in the face of globalization remains unknown. But the best way to equip workers for whatever globalization might render is by investing in their human capital, say Slaughter and Rees.

Jan 07, 2019

Slaughter & Rees Report: The New Year’s Upside of Falling Life Expectancy

For the third consecutive year, life expectancy in the U.S. has fallen.

Dec 03, 2018

Slaughter & Rees Report: Where Is There Hope for a Kinder and Gentler Nation? In Prison.

The First Step Act, which sits before the U.S. Senate, would create more opportunities for rehabilitation in federal prisons.

Nov 01, 2018

Slaughter & Rees Report: How to Save Globalization

When it comes to globalization, building a lifelong ladder of opportunity for all citizens is imperative, say Slaughter and Rees.

Oct 02, 2018

Slaughter & Rees Report: Happy Fiscal New Year. And a Stormy One, Too.

"Fiscal 2018 was in many ways a disaster for the fiscal health of America—today and in the future," say Slaughter and Rees.

Sep 04, 2018

Slaughter & Rees Report: The Economic Guns of September

The United States and China are on the brink of a major trade war. Here are three principles that should guide U.S. policy leaders’ statecraft at this precarious time.

Apr 09, 2018

Slaughter & Rees Report: Time for a Myspace Comeback?

It is no longer clear that users of Facebook benefit as they once thought they did—could there be a better way? Dean Matthew Slaughter and economist Matthew Rees weigh in.

Mar 05, 2018

Slaughter & Rees Report: War and Peace

The President recently tweeted that trade wars are good and winnable. Slaughter & Rees argue that no country wins in a trade war.