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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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September 9, 2015
Ten Whats With…Caitlin Talmadge
Caitlin Talmadge is an assistant professor at The George Washington University and was a 2014-2015 Stanton nuclear security fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is the author of The Dictat…
May 27, 2005
United States
Bretton Woods Two and Trade Politics
The interest rate on the 10 year Treasury note is somewhere between 4.0-4.1% -- and the US seems to be having no trouble financing its current account (or its budget) deficit right now. The risk of…
February 13, 2006
Monetary Policy
It is back. Bretton Woods 2 (central bank financing of the US)
Some would say it never really went away.Emerging market economies did not stop accumulating reserves in 2005. Best I can tell, adjusting for valuation effects and including all the foreign assets o…
August 20, 2007
Financial Markets
Reverse engineering financial engineering
The process that turned subprime mortgages into triple AAA rated securities is, by now, pretty well known. Rich Bookstaber (his blog is here) describes the process nicely.Here's the recipe for a CD…