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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…
January 29, 2008
Financial MarketsWith the Fed now aggressively cutting US interest rates to keep the bursting of a real estate bubble from devastating the US financial system and economy, is the dollar about to turn into the yen- th…
March 15, 2007
Financial MarketsStephen Jen of Morgan Stanley insists not-so-big. Or at least that the large size of the carry trade cannot be proved – and that the impact of any recent unwinding has been overstated. That is his…
February 4, 2007
Financial MarketsAndrew Rozanov of State Street knows a thing or two about how official institutions manage their money (that is a big part of his current job) and a thing or two about Japan (he was based in Tokyo fo…
March 21, 2007
Financial MarketsThat at least is what the market seems to think. The carry trade has bounced back. The Australian dollar -- a high carry currency -- is setting new highs (v. the US dollar at least). The kiwi has r…
March 29, 2024
United StatesThe late Sen. Joseph Lieberman was a model of how public life should be conducted, and an important figure in American Jewish history.
June 27, 2016
Full disclosure: I worked on Puerto Rico while at the U.S. Treasury in 2015. All views here are my own. The Hill has published my column on PROMESA (the bill that sets out a framework for fiscal ove…