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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 5, 2007
United States
Not even worth mentioning anymore
Deborah Solomon of the Wall Street Journal explains how the US was able to have guns (and some though may be not enough up-armored humvees), butter (or at least over-priced prescription drugs), low i…
July 6, 2007
Emerging Markets
One more reason China and Russia are not quite as welcoming to foreign direct investment these days…
They don't need the money.Deborah Solomon's interesting A1 Wall Street Journal story about the US Treasury's concerns that the world may not be quite as open to US direct investment as it used to be …
October 18, 2007
United States
SIV-City
The Wall Street Journal says it is London. The Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism cries foul: the real SIV-City is Citi. Yves Smith has a point. The Journal’s reporting makes it clear that Citi – an…
December 3, 2010
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Friday File: A Treaty for a Tax Cut
Above the Fold. Don’t count the New START Treaty out just yet. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told Good Morning America on Tuesday that the treaty could be approved by year’s end. Sen. George Voinovich…
January 19, 2012
International Organizations
Breaking the UN Deadlock on Syria
Despite Arab League monitors in Syria, the death toll of the regime’s brutal crackdown on protestors is rising. The situation in Syria raises the question: Why did the United Nations authorize an int…
