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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…

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 …

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April 8, 2008

Economics
Imagine this site redone in crimson and blue …

I thought that the KU Jayhawks had a shot to comeback from their mini-slump late in the second half that allowed Memphis to open up a lead when Collins stole an inbound pass late in the game and th…

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December 13, 2010

Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and Disarmament
TWE Quick Takes: Saddam Hussein, New START and More

Seven years ago today soldiers in the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division pulled Saddam Hussein from a hole underneath a two-room mud shack on a sheep farm in the town of ad-Dawr, …

TWE Quick Takes: Saddam Hussein, New START and More