Robert Hormats

Entre sus publicaciones se incluyen El precio de la libertad: El pago de las guerras de Estados Unidos desde la Revolución hasta la Guerra contra el Terrorismo ; Abraham Lincoln y la economía global ; El albatros americano: El dilema de la deuda externa ; y Reforma del sistema monetario internacional . Otras publicaciones incluyen artículos en Foreign Affairs , Foreign Policy , The New York Times , The Washington Post , The Wall Street Journal , American Banker y The Financial Times . ^{[ 4 ]}

Hormats es fideicomisario honorario del Instituto para la Educación (IFE). ^{[ 7 ]} Desempeñó un papel en la fundación del Centro para la Educación Internacional (CIE) en la Escuela Internacional de Washington . ^{[ 8 ]}

Es miembro de Securing America's Future Energy (SAFE), del Economic Club of New York , del Banco Internacional de Reconstrucción y Fomento , del Instituto Irvington para la Investigación Inmunológica , de Engelhard Corporation , y fue miembro del Rockefeller Center Club , del Pacific Council on Foreign Policy y de Freedom House . ^{[ 9 ] [ 10 ]} Hormats también es miembro de la junta directiva de la Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). ^{[ 11 ]} Hormats ha sido investigador invitado en la Brookings Institution y profesor visitante en la Universidad de Princeton . Es miembro de la Comisión Trilateral y forma parte de la junta directiva del Hungarian-American Enterprise Fund y del Council on Foreign Relations , además de ser miembro de la junta de supervisores de la Universidad de Tufts . ^{[ 12 ]}

Hormats es miembro de la Junta Directiva del Atlantic Council ^{[ 13 ] .}

Hormats has been a supporter of legislation that would increase investments in infrastructure in America through a national bank that would develop public-private partnerships for large transportation projects. "It's a high national priority," Hormats told Congressional Quarterly in March 2008. "Public-private cooperation is a really critical part. The needs are urgent."^[14] He and others argue that U.S. transportation infrastructure has lagged behind foreign competitors. Unless the country picks up the pace, it will not be able to support its growing trade and population.^[15]

He is an advocate of enhancing intelligence capabilities, modernizing military equipment and spending more money on preparing first-responders like firemen and emergency medical technicians for crises.^[16] He worries that future presidential administrations will spend less than they should on homeland security because to do so will require raising taxes or cutting non-defense programs. He also worries that the unpopularity of the Iraq war will cause the country to reduce its military presence overseas.^[17]

Hormats has argued that China and America are financially intertwined. It would not be in China’s financial interest, he argued, to destabilize the dollar by recalling the country’s vast loans to the U.S. Doing so would result in a shrunken export market for China. Hormats calls this MAD—mutually assured depression. In 2004, the government fined Goldman Sachs $2 million for illegally and selectively promoting the stock of four Asian companies that were about to go public. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Hormats and others "made illegal offerings of securities to select customers in 1999 and 2000 and made inappropriate statements to the press." Hormats told four media outlets that PetroChina, a Chinese-based oil producer, was not invested in Darfur. The disclosure was illegal under SEC rules, because the company had not yet gone public, and Hormats would not have been allowed to comment until it had done so.^[18][19]