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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 17, 2007
Financial Markets
The first true twenty-first century financial crisis?
Larry Summers – picking up on a phrase perhaps first used by Michel Camdessus -- liked to call the Mexican crisis the first financial crisis of the 21st century. Mexico’s decision to exhaust its re…
March 5, 2012
Russia
Hello (Welcome Back): Vladimir Putin, Russian President
He’s baaaaaccck! Vladimir Putin, who stepped down in 2008 as Russia’s president after serving two terms, won yesterday’s Russian presidential election going away. He captured a reported 64 percent of…
April 9, 2007
Monetary Policy
What have the world’s central banks been up to? The latest Treasury survey provides some clues
I suspect I am one of a very small number of people who eagerly awaits the publication of the Treasury’s annual survey for foreign portfolio investment. Wall Street doesn’t find it particularly u…
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…
December 28, 2016
United States
Ten American Foreign Policy Influentials Who Died in 2016
As 2016 comes to a close, here are ten influential U.S. foreign policy figures who passed away this year.
