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Brookings

American  
[brook-ingz] / ˈbrʊk ɪŋz /

noun

  1. Robert Somers 1850–1932, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.

  2. a city in E South Dakota.


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The Iranian regime “is going to do whatever they can and whatever they believe will help them stay in power,” said Suzanne Maloney, director of the foreign-policy program at the Brookings Institution, speaking at a Chicago Council on Global Affairs event this week.

From MarketWatch

There has been a “slow-motion effort” to get U.S. military assets in the Middle East region since January, said Suzanne Maloney, director of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution.

From MarketWatch

Chief among them is geopolitics, according to Kyle Chan, a researcher at the Brookings Institution think tank who studies Chinese tech firms and industrial policy.

From MarketWatch

About the author: David Wessel is the director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution, which he joined in 2014 after 30 years as a reporter, editor, and columnist at The Wall Street Journal.

From Barron's

Forbidding these investors from renting out homes might expand the supply of for-sale properties by a 1-2%, economist Joseph Gyourko estimated in a recent Brookings analysis.

From The Wall Street Journal