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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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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…
June 20, 2007
United States
Does Bretton Woods 2 end with a bang or with a wimper — a dialogue
What follows is a bit of an experiment. I am posting -- with permission -- a lightly edited version of an email exchange that I had with a global equity portfolio manager a few days ago. Like all…
September 12, 2007
United States
A savings glut, not an investment drought -
So argues Ben Bernanke. His basic argument is very simple. The emerging world now has a large and growing current account surplus that finances a large and growing current account defic…
December 28, 2016
United States
Ten American Foreign Policy Influentials Who Died in 2016
As 2016 comes to a close, here are ten influential U.S. foreign policy figures who passed away this year.
September 20, 2013
Defense and Security
You Might Have Missed: Benghazi, Syria, and China’s Aid
Art Swift, “For First Time, American’s Views of Russia Turn Negative,” Gallup, September 18, 2013. (3PA: More Americans, 74%, have an unfavorable view of Congress: http://bit.ly/18dXgS1.) Adm…
June 9, 2014
Politics and Government
Hello (Ahlan), Abdul Fattah al-Sisi: President of Egypt
Abdul Fattah al-Sisi took the oath of office as Egypt’s new president yesterday. He succeeded the interim president, Adly Mansour. And who appointed Mansour? Why, Sisi himself after he and the Egypt…
