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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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September 20, 2012
Monetary Policy
Is Bernanke Right on QE3 and the Mortgage Market?
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke defended QE3 at his September 13 press conference by arguing that it would lower mortgage rates and increase home prices. Over 80% of U.S. household debt is mortgage deb…
September 6, 2012
Defense and Security
The World Next Week: September 11, the November Election, and Ben Bernanke
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks; the home stretch of the presidential campaign; and what Federal Reserve Chairman …
December 15, 2006
China
Ben Bernanke (almost) speaks truth to (real) financial power …
Bernanke’s speech at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences is well worth reading. He quite accurately notes – at least in the written text, if not in the actual speech – that China’s extensive inte…
September 9, 2020
Southeast Asia
A Review of “Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia” by Ben Bland
Thomas Pepinsky is Tisch University Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author, most recently, of …
