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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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March 27, 2006
Economics
The Economist’s Lexington columnist needs to get out a bit more …
Rather amazingly, the only US public intellectuals that seem to have made it onto Lexington's radar screen come from the American right. The Neocon right and its pet idea (invading Iraq), the eco…
June 18, 2006
Emerging Markets
A hard landing in 2006 - just not in the US?
Nouriel and I postulated back in early 2005 that there was a meaningful risk that the next “emerging market” crisis might come from the US – and it might come sooner than most expected. The basic q…
September 20, 2006
Europe
Is it Europe’s turn to rise a housing bubble?
Both Morgan Stanley (at least Eric Chaney) and JP Morgan (in their latest global outlook) now recognize that Europe has emerged as an important engine of global demand growth. Indeed, the 2005 sur…
October 12, 2006
Europe
Is France the US of the Eurozone — at least when it comes to housing?
I have --on occasion -- pushed against the standard economic narrative on the US and Europe, one that contrasts the "flexible" US with "rigid" Europe. It has a grain of truth, but only a grain. T…
November 5, 2006
Monetary Policy
Stephen Jen - the anti-Roubini (and the anti-Setser)
The odds of a US recession: Nouriel Roubini: 90% Stephen Jen: 13% I know my comparative advantage does not lie in gauging whether or not a sharp fall in residential investment will spill o…