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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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June 18, 2012
Trade
Morning Brief: Delaying the Fiscal Cliff
Current legislation calls for over $500 billion in spending cuts and tax increases at the end of 2012, a “fiscal cliff” that The Economist argues politicians should postpone. While acknowledging that…
December 2, 2013
Thailand
Thailand Heads Over the Cliff
Over the weekend, Thailand’s unrest, centered in Bangkok, only went from bad to worse, with at least four people killed over the weekend, the anti-government demonstrations showing no sign of ending,…
August 23, 2012
Trade
Morning Brief: CBO Warns Fiscal Cliff Will Cause Recession
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicts a recession in 2013 with an economic contraction of 0.5 percent if the "fiscal cliff" is not addressed (TheHill). The CBO director implored …
January 18, 2013
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Fiscal Cliff Update: a Short-Term Debt Limit Extension Shifts the Battlefield
Reports from the House Republican’s Williamsburg retreat suggest growing momentum in favor of a short-term debt limit extension. This follows calls over the past few days from several prominent Repu…
November 21, 2012
United States
You Might Have Missed: Targeted Killings, the Fiscal Cliff, and "Killer Robots"
Nicholas Schmidle, “After Pakistan,” The New Yorker, November 26, 2012. And then there were the drones. A couple of weeks ago, on his first day at Columbia, Munter admonished a class of fourteen law…
