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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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February 4, 2007
Financial Markets
The mechanics of the carry trade, revealed … (sort of)
Andrew 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…
December 12, 2008
Emerging Markets
Has the dollar peaked?
For much of the most recent phase of the rolling global crisis, the dollar and the yen rose against the euro, the pound and most emerging market currencies. Some of that was a reaction to the euro’s…
April 29, 2009
Financial Markets
Why were arguments against taking on risk discounted heavily during the boom?
Barry Eichengreen writes exceptionally well: "THE GREAT Credit Crisis has cast into doubt much of what we thought we knew about economics. We thought that monetary policy had tamed the business cycl…
February 5, 2016
China
Friday Asia Update: Five Stories From the Week of February 5, 2016
Ashlyn Anderson, Rachel Brown, Lincoln Davidson, Ariella Rotenberg, Gabriel Walker, and Pei-Yu Wei look at five stories from Asia this week. 1. Indian Supreme Court scheduled to review discriminator…
April 12, 2016
International Organizations
Surface Tension: Chinese Aggression Roils Southeast Asian Waters
In telling the Group of Seven (G7) yesterday to butt out of its controversial maritime claims in East Asia, China has doubled down on an historic strategic blunder. Beijing’s belligerence in the Sout…
