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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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July 2, 2012
Politics and Government
Hola, Enrique Peña Nieto: President-Elect of Mexico
Enrique Peña Nieto had a very good weekend. While Americans were grumbling about record-breaking heat and residents of Washington, D.C., were learning to live without air conditioning because powerfu…
February 24, 2012
Defense and Security
Friday File: Quran Burning and the End of the Afghan War
Above the Fold. The protests that have erupted across Afghanistan this week in the wake of the news that coalition forces burned several Qurans have laid bare the gulf that continues to exist, and ma…
December 3, 2008
China
Should the currency of the country with a large and growing trade surplus and large and growing reserves depreciate against the dollar?
On Monday China apparently decided to allow the renminbi to depreciate against the dollar. Let’s be clear: China generally still has to intervene in the market to keep its currency from appreciat…
September 12, 2005
China
Show me the money (really, show me China’s reserves)
China's Alan Greenspan (Zhou Xiaochuan) has indicated China won't roil financial markets with "active composition adjustments of the foreign reserves." fine. But any central bank adding about $20 …
August 2, 2012
Defense and Security
The World Next Week: Congress’s Recess, Syrian Violence, Hiroshima Anniversary, and NASA’s Mars Mission
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed where things stand in Washington as Congress recesses for the summer; the continued violence in Syria; the 67th anniversary of the Hiros…
