Frank Fuhrig

- Media Relations Manager
Frank Fuhrig is media relations manager at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, working with scholars in areas including trade, monetary policy and health care.
Before joining Mercatus, Fuhrig was a wire editor and Washington correspondent for dpa International, the global English-language service of Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Germany's largest independent news agency, editing news from around the world and covering US politics, international diplomacy, and economics. While at DPA from 2001-18, he led projects leveraging DPA's global network of journalists on topics including pension reform and migration, and covered the 9/11 attacks, major-party presidential conventions, the Detroit auto show, Hurricane Harvey in Texas, and the Masters golf tournament. Previously, he co-founded and led an independent weekly newspaper covering the community around the University of Illinois at Chicago, and worked in Illinois as a reporter for the Jacksonville Journal-Courier and State Journal-Register, covering crime, courts, floods and tornadoes, state and local government, rural development, agriculture, and environmental issues.
Fuhrig is a downstate Illinois native with a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Illinois at Springfield. He lives in Arlington with his wife and two sons, and enjoys cooking, craft beers, loud music, judo, and watching combat sports and the St. Louis Cardinals.
Publications & Appearances
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Quick Reads: A Bad Deal for American Industry
As soon as President Trump announced a renewed 10 percent tariff on imports of Canadian aluminum, Mercatus Center trade…
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Quick Reads: IMF World Economic Outlook Update Projects Economic Fallout From COVID-19
A new report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects a global economic contraction of three percent this year…
- | Monetary Policy Monetary Policy
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From Stagflation to Quantitative Easing: The History of the Cato Institute’s Monetary Conference
The US economy was still in the shadow of stagflation as the market-oriented Cato Institute held its first monetary conference…
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Allan Meltzer Book Grew from Podcast Episode
The seeds of a newly published book memorializing eminent economist Allan Meltzer sprouted from the Mercatus Center’s Macro…
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
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US-China "Phase 1" Pact: Trade War Turning Point, or Just Getting Our Hopes Up?
The US and China have agreed in principle on a preliminary trade pact.
After a White House meeting Friday with Chinese Vice…
- | Monetary Policy Monetary Policy
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Facts About Nominal GDP Level Targeting
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Key to Financial Stability is Higher Capital Requirements, Policy Analyst Argues
There is no substitute for adequate capital requirements to maintain stability in the financial system, policy analyst Gregg…
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
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Soumaya Keynes Says Trump Trade Tweets Have Unleashed "Bigger Uncertainty" Beyond Tariffs
The current trade wars are hardly the first or even the worst bout of protectionism in US history, but the current political…
- | Government Spending Government Spending
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Alex Tabarrok on Higher-Ed Inflation: Productivity Hasn't Budged Since Socrates
Higher education and healthcare are the only US sectors with persistent price increases, leaving economists and policymakers…
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Pressuring the Fed Is No Surefire Electoral Solution, Says Economic Historian
President Donald Trump’s unabashed lobbying for the Federal Reserve to loosen monetary policy is unprecedented only in his use…