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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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July 27, 2011
Ten Whats With...Laurie Garrett
Laurie Garrett. Courtesy of Laurie Garrett. Laurie Garrett is a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Ms. Garrett is the only writer ever to have been aw…
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…
March 23, 2008
Monetary Policy
There is now little doubt: the US relies on central banks and sovereign funds to finance its deficit …
This is Brad Setser once again. I am back from my spring break. I want to thank Dr. Frankel and Rachel Ziemba for taking my place last week. No one in their right mind paid much attention to the …
April 30, 2006
Can the dollar block survive another bout of dollar weakness?
In case you haven't noticed, the dollar is now closer to 1.30 (v. the euro) than 1.20 - or even 1.15. Carry is no longer king. There is talk of a "regime change" in the fx market. Or at least an …
July 12, 2008
Monetary Policy
Too Chinese (and Russian) to fail?
The epicenter of the US financial crisis now seems to have shifted to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- the government sponsored enterprises that dominate the market for US housing finance. Few inst…
