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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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August 13, 2011
Elections and Voting
Campaign 2012: Hello Rick Perry, GOP Presidential Candidate
Texas Governor Rick Perry delivers remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on February 11, 2011. (Jonathan Ernst/courtesy Reuters) For seventeen of the past forty-eigh…
October 18, 2008
Monetary Policy
Where is my swap line? And will the diffusion of financial power Balkanize the global response to a broadening crisis?
Some emerging market central banks have noticed that they – unlike the Bank of Japan, Bank of England, Swiss National Bank and the European Central Bank – don’t have access to unlimited dollar credit…
December 18, 2015
Economics
Budget Deal Oil-for-Renewables Trade Would Substantially Reduce Carbon Emissions
This post is coauthored by Varun Sivaram and Michael Levi. Congress is set to vote on a budget deal that would permanently end the long-standing ban on crude oil exports in exchange for temporary ex…
November 5, 2010
Energy and Climate Policy
Cap-and-Trade Didn’t Kill the Dems
There’s been a lot of back and forth about whether cap-and-trade hurt the Democrats this past Tuesday. It’s mostly spin, with people focusing on whatever results they think bolster their case. But th…
September 20, 2006
Europe
Is it Europe’s turn to rise a housing bubble?
Both Morgan Stanley (at least Eric Chaney) and JP Morgan (in their latest global outlook) now recognize that Europe has emerged as an important engine of global demand growth. Indeed, the 2005 sur…
