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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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December 16, 2022
2022 in Review
Ten Most Significant World Events in 2022
As 2022 comes to a close, here are the top ten most notable world events of the past year.
November 5, 2014
United States
Ten Cold War Novels Worth Reading
If you want to know the facts about the Cold War, you should read histories and memoirs. If you want to know how the Cold War felt, you should read novels. Why? Because “fiction reveals truths that r…
January 10, 2019
Disasters
Averting Global Catastrophe: A New IIGG Blog Series
Nature and technology pose a worrying array of threats to twenty-first century civilization. These global menaces and the catastrophic risks associated with them are the subject of a new Internationa…
December 12, 2008
Emerging Markets
Has the dollar peaked?
For much of the most recent phase of the rolling global crisis, the dollar and the yen rose against the euro, the pound and most emerging market currencies. Some of that was a reaction to the euro’s…
April 29, 2009
Financial Markets
Why were arguments against taking on risk discounted heavily during the boom?
Barry Eichengreen writes exceptionally well: "THE GREAT Credit Crisis has cast into doubt much of what we thought we knew about economics. We thought that monetary policy had tamed the business cycl…