Take a look at this Washington Post article by Jonathan Weisman, which the big blogs have justly pounced on. The initial framing of Weisman’s article is just way, way off. Social security in no way…

I noticed that the US Treasury statement that accompanied the foreign currency report adopted the rhetoric of shared sacrifice. We are not bashing China in lieu of tackling our own problems; we in …

That, of course, that is not what the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported today. Rather, the BEA reported that at the end of 2004, the net external debt of the US (with FDI at market value) was onl…

The news this week that Cambodia would deport a group of Uighurs who had fled China and turned up in Phnom Penh, via an underground railroad route normally used by Koreans fleeing North Korea, sparke…

Barbara Finamore at NRDC has a nice rundown of internal Chinese discussions about imposing a carbon tax beginning in 2012. A Chinese carbon tax would be a positive development. But it’s important for…