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April 15, 2020

Oil and Petroleum Products
FAQ: A Shale New Deal

This is a guest post by Hunter Kornfeind, intern for Energy and Climate Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and current student at Temple University. A breakthrough agreement between major …

A horizontal drilling rig on a lease owned by Parsley Energy operates at sunrise in the Permian Basin near Midland, Texas U.S. August 24, 2018.

May 16, 2013

International Organizations
There’s a Fly in My Soup! Can Insects Satisfy World Food Needs?

What world traveler hasn’t declined at least one local “delicacy”? A decade ago in Oaxaca, Mexico, I turned up my nose at chapulines, a steaming plate of toasted grasshoppers. “Tastes like chicken,” …

Locusts and worms are seen on a spoon after being cooked with olive oil for a discovery lunch in Brussels

May 1, 2015

Political Transitions
You Might Have Missed: Drone Strikes, Nation-building, and the U.S. Aviation Inventory

Elisabeth Bumiller, “Soldier, Thinker, Hunter, Spy: Drawing a Bead on Al Qaeda,” New York Times, September 3, 2011. In Mr. [Michael] Vickers’s [top adviser to then-secretary of defense Leon E. Panet…

Aviation Inventory

September 21, 2006

Financial Markets
Unintentional irony watch (hedge fund edition)

Risk management standards do seem to be slipping.   Davis, Sender and Zuckerman in the Wall Street Journal: “The risk models employed by hedge funds use historic data, but the natural gas markets hav…