Echonomics

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Echonomics is a narrative podcast that looks at how past economic events in Asia continue to impact U.S. policy today. Join us as we hear how history reverberates onto today’s policy decisions and often repeats itself.

07/01/2025

U.S. Faces Economic Competition with Asia

In the 1980s, Japanese companies were snapping up prime New York real estate and Japanese cars lined both Main Street and Wall Street, spiking economic anxiety in the U.S. As a result, Americans and politicians targeted the country, through the destruction of Japanese-made products and heavy tariffs. Today, China finds itself in a similar situation. Ambassador Carla Hills, Bill Reinsch, Craig Allen, Kim Menke, and Don Morrissey discuss the similarities and differences between the anti-Japanese sentiment of the 1980s and the anti-Chinese sentiment of today.

30 min
06/24/2025

China Enters the Global Trade System

After decades of negotiations, promises to open its markets, and convincing the Chinese people of the country’s next step, China officially joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. Wendy Cutler, Ambassador Xiangchen Zhang, and Bill Reinsch discuss why China and the world wanted the country to join the WTO and why many have come to regret it.

29 min
06/17/2025

Asia Emerges from Financial Crisis

The story of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis continues in this episode. Hear the “Echonomics”’ guests discuss how the U.S., International Monetary Fund, and global organizations learned from the crisis and why it was, and still is, important to get to know Asia and its economies.

25 min
06/10/2025

Asia Engulfed in Financial Crisis

In 1997, Thailand’s currency collapsed, setting off a currency contagion that spread across Asia and threatened to take down several economies with it. Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Siwage Dharma Negara, Caroline Atkinson, and Paul Blustein discuss the origins of the crisis and the impact it had on markets across the region.

23 min
06/03/2025

Introducing Echonomics

Introducing Echonomics, a narrative podcast that looks at how past economic events in Asia continue to impact U.S. policy today. Join us and hear how history reverberates onto today’s policy decisions and often repeats itself.

2 min

5 Episodes

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13 Ratings

Please come back

08/21/2025

3rd Country Parents

It was probably too much to expect Erin Murphy to maintain such a high standard of performance for a weekly podcast for very long. I do hope that she is able to return to the mic soon, perhaps on a fortnightly basis. The Asia policy community in DC needs this podcast.
Chairman

07/21/2025

Dlpperingdong

I listen to many CSIS, CFR, Brookings, Economist, and other podcasts. None are comparable to Echonomics in terms of the concentrated volume of clear, factual information conveyed per minute in every podcast. It is difficult to imagine how much time must go into ideating, researching, composing, interviewing, analyzing, editing, and recording each podcast. The interplay between geopolitics, international finance, economics and other factors is highly informative, while being presented in a compelling and fascinating manner.
History informs present

06/22/2025

Aricr

It’s so important to understand how various phenomena developed with the benefit of hindsight. These producers do a great job. I look forward to a lot more content from them. Keep it up!

Echonomics is a narrative podcast that looks at how past economic events in Asia continue to impact U.S. policy today. Join us as we hear how history reverberates onto today’s policy decisions and often repeats itself.