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Introduction
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…
November 22, 2004
You could sort of see this headline coming: China tells the US to put its house in order. Lenders never like receiving lectures on sound economic policy from their borrowers. John Snow might have …
April 11, 2005
United StatesAltogether, the circumstances seem to be as dangerous and intractable as any I can remember, and I can remember quite a lot. What really concerns me is that there seems to be so little willingness o…
April 18, 2005
Financial MarketsDan Drezner has an interesting post up, laying out the components of a "serious" approach to encouraging (or pressuring) China to change its exchange rate peg. He nicely lays out the options, thoug…
May 1, 2005
ChinaIt is a bit hard to start shorting the renminbi (RMB/ the Chinese currency) just because China has now made its appearance on the cover of Newsweek. It is hard to short something that has yet to be …
July 4, 2005
EconomicsBecause I am. I don’t expect to post much -- if at all -- this week.I need a small vacation.I am pretty confident that all the "imbalances" that the BIS highlighted will still be here in a week -- a…