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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…
March 4, 2005
Emerging MarketsI do not expect to consistently agree with the oped page of the Wall Street Journal. But I do not think it is too much to ask that the columnists on oped page of the Journal try to square their argu…
July 21, 2005
But the change against the dollar is small. Very small. Too small in my view to have much of an economic impact, in any way. On trade flows. Or on capital flows. I would still bet on a furth…
January 18, 2006
ChinaIndia's economy policy has not been as "shrewd, far-sighted and pro-growth" as China's. That's why Nick Kristof is betting on the former communists in Beijing, not the Oxbridge/ Reserve Bank of Indi…
February 27, 2006
Financial MarketsIf you read the financial press closely, it was hard not to learn a bit about the Icelandic krona over the past week. The krona pays a high interest rate, you see - enabling Iceland to attract the …
April 19, 2006
United StatesSo says Michael Mandel. Some of us might say you can't put dark matter in a container because it doesn't really exist.That is not Mandel's argument. He believes in dark matter, though apparently n…