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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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January 9, 2005
Financial Markets
The price of a European vacation
As readers of this blog no doubt know, the dollar rallied v. the euro last week. Not that most of America noticed. In much of America’s heartland, the dollar’s value does not make the financial new…
September 3, 2008
China
Forget about the CIC. The state banks are the real story for now
Rose Yu and Amy Or’s Wall Street Journal story on China’s reduced appetite for Agency bonds is loaded with interesting detail. And not just about the fall in Chinese state banks’ holdings of Agenc…
August 18, 2011
Middle East and North Africa
The End of OPEC?
Is the “center of gravity” of the global energy system about to shift from the Middle East to the Americas? That’s the provocative thesis of an article by Amy Jaffe in the new issue of Foreign Policy…
January 18, 2012
Trade
The Bid to Bundle U.S. Trade Agencies
President Obama requested Congressional approval last Friday to reorganize the federal government, a plan that includes consolidation of six trade and commerce agencies into a single, streamlined dep…
July 12, 2012
United States
Middle East Matters This Week: Syria’s Defections and Diplomacy, Egypt’s Power Struggles
Significant Middle East Developments Syria. UN Security Council members today began discussing a draft resolution on Syria in New York. Russia and the Western nations on the 15-member council have d…
