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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 4, 2005
Is the US a generous country?
I am not sure I want to wade into this debate.But I am pretty sure that Carol Adelman did not prove her case in today’s New York Times.Her argument is that aid flows are being privatized, and if you …
March 2, 2006
United States
It is official: the current account deficit doesn’t stem from a boom in investment in intangible assets
OK, maybe not official. But the Economist, drawing on the work of Carol Corrado, Dan Sichel and Charles Hulten, has the key chart. Check it out. Investment - including investment in intangible asse…
November 21, 2006
Europe
The booms in Spanish and Irish real estate make the US real estate boom look timid
I have outsourced Thanksgiving blogging to Charles Gottlieb of the Center for European policy studies in Brussels. (Charles.gottlieb at ceps.be)His topic: The Spanish and Irish housing booms (or bu…
December 24, 2007
Economics
Holiday ice-blogging
Kansas isn't quite as icy as it was two weeks ago, but it did snow two days ago.(photo credit: Carole Setser)I plan to focus on eating and drinking over the next few days -- I'll resume posting next …
October 12, 2008
Financial Markets
On the precipice
Words no Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund ever wants to utter: “Intensifying solvency concerns about a number of the largest US-based and European financial institutions have pu…