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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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March 21, 2011
Politics and Government
Campaign 2012: Hello Tim Pawlenty, GOP Presidential Candidate
Tim Pawlenty speaks during the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition's Spring Event on March 8, 2011. (Brian Frank/courtesy Reuters) Only one Big Ten university has ever graduated an American president—T…
May 11, 2009
Emerging Markets
Sovereign bailout funds, sovereign development funds, sovereign wealth funds, royal wealth funds …
The classic sovereign wealth fund was an institution that invested a country’s surplus foreign exchange (whether from the buildup of “spare” foreign exchange reserves at the central bank or from the …
November 28, 2005
Emerging Markets
No more Lavagna. What’s next for Argentina?
Two weeks ago I would have expected Brazil's Finance Minister to be forced out before Argentina's Finance Minister... However, Palocci is a close ally of Brazil's Lula; Argentina's Lavagna has neve…
May 25, 2006
United States
You know, there are safe havens that do not have a current account deficit of $1 trillion …
Incidentally, I am not the only one who thinks that the US current account deficit is heading toward a trillion. The OECD now forecasts $965b current account deficit in 2006 (7.2% of GDP), and $107…