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January 2, 2008

United States
America’s Achilles heel?

Before my September lecture on the relationship (if any) between external debt and external power, I read a lot of Niall Ferguson.  I even used the financial troubles of Egypt’s khedive - troubles Dr…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

January 16, 2007

Budget, Debt, and Deficits
The Washington Post really doesn’t like Social Security …

Best I can tell, Social Security is in the best financial shape of any federal program.  It is in far better future shape than Medicare.   And it is in way better shape than the portion of the govern…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

February 13, 2007

United States
The 2006 trade data

It seems to me that there are at least three big stories in the US trade data, maybe four or five ...The first is that US exports grew quite strongly in 2006.  And goods exports outperformed services…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

April 23, 2015

Technology and Innovation
Why Moore’s Law Doesn’t Apply to Clean Technologies

Over the weekend, Moore’s Law—the prediction that the number of transistors (building blocks) on an integrated circuit (computer chip or microchip) would double every two years—turned fifty years old…

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Blog Post by Varun Sivaram Energy, Security, and Climate

December 1, 2015

Global
Ten Historical Anniversaries of Note in 2016

As 2015 comes to a close, here are ten notable historical anniversaries to mark in 2016.

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Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge