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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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July 5, 2012
Military Operations
How the Obama Administration Justifies Targeted Killings
Despite almost ten years of operations and nearly four hundred airstrikes that killed an estimated three thousand people (both militants and civilians), both the Bush and Obama administrations have p…
October 18, 2006
Monetary Policy
The impact of central bank demand on US bond yields.
In late 2004 and early 2005, Nouriel and I estimated that the actions of foreign central banks might be holding US yields down by as much as 200 bp. That estimate found its way into Pam Woodall’s Eco…
January 14, 2011
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Friday File: Hu Is Coming
U.S. President Barack Obama meets China's President Hu Jintao in Seoul. (Jim Young/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. Chinese President Hu Jintao comes to Washington next week for his first visit …
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…
October 12, 2006
Europe
Is France the US of the Eurozone — at least when it comes to housing?
I have --on occasion -- pushed against the standard economic narrative on the US and Europe, one that contrasts the "flexible" US with "rigid" Europe. It has a grain of truth, but only a grain. T…
