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June 18, 2010

Fossil Fuels
Is Drilling a Relief Well in Advance the Answer to Deepwater Blowout Risk?

There is a lot of buzz over Senator Frank Lautenberg’s suggestion that oil companies be required to drill a relief well at the same time as they drill any deepwater production well. That would allow …

Blog Post by Michael Levi Energy, Security, and Climate

March 25, 2011

Defense and Security
Friday File: Is Operation Odyssey Dawn Going to End Well?

A French fighter jet prepares to land at its military air base on the island of Corsica where France runs its military operation against Libya. (Jean-Paul Pelissier/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold…

A French fighter jet prepares to land at the military air base on the island of Corsica where France runs its military operation against Libya. (Jean-Paul Pelissier/courtsey Reuters)
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

August 16, 2005

Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Well, the 2005 fiscal deficit looks good …

I'll leave it to others (Brookings, Goldman, CBPP, DeLong with some help from Concord Coalition) to transform the CBO forecast into realistic projections.  Manipulating the CBO long-term budget forec…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

August 8, 2014

Iraq
Weekend Reading: Destroying Religious Shrines, the Yazidis, and Humans of Kurdistan (as well as New York)

Mohamad Ballan explores the Islamic State’s destruction of religious shrines in historical context. Matthew Barber reports on recent IS advances against Iraqi Kurds and the plight of the Yazidi mino…

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

April 12, 2005

United States
Well on our way toward a $900 billion current account deficit …

At least we are if non-oil imports do not slow soon; by my calculations, non-oil imports have increased by 16.2% y/y. That kind of growth in non-oil imports -- combined with already large gap betwe…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money