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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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July 14, 2015
Elections and Voting
Campaign 2016: Governor Chris Christie, GOP Presidential Candidate
One hundred and three years have passed since the last time a sitting New Jersey governor was elected president. Current New Jersey Governor Chris Christie hopes to break that streak. He announced tw…
December 12, 2017
United States
The World Turned Upside Down: Maintaining American Leadership in a Dangerous Age (The Aspen Policy Book Series)
Aspen Policy Books is a series of annual publications on the United States’ most pressing foreign policy and national security issues. In 2017, the Aspen Strategy Group examined the future of the lib…
December 20, 2012
United States
Middle East Matters’ Ten Most Significant Developments of 2012
Here it is: the second annual Middle East Matters year-end roundup listing the ten most significant Middle East developments of 2012. Since this blog focuses on the interplay between U.S. policy and …
March 29, 2006
China
Exit Schumer and Graham, Enter Grassley and Baucus
Schumer-Graham won't be brought to a vote until September. China's central bank governor Zhou must be persuasive. Maybe he plotted out where the RMB will likely be if China continues with its cur…
March 6, 2017
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Puerto Rico’s Daunting Fiscal Math (My View)
An applied economics question: A country with no independent monetary policy, undergoing a ten-year slump that has reduced its real GDP on average by over a percentage point a year, needs to do a …