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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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October 29, 2008
Emerging Markets
At this rate the world’s financial architecture will have been remade before November 15th
Today the Federal Reserve indicated that it would swap US dollars for Brazilian real, Korean won, Mexican pesos and Singapore dollars -- effectively allowing a select group of emerging economies to b…
May 31, 2011
International Organizations
BRICS, or Straw Men? Why the Next IMF Head Will Be European
France's Finance and Economy Minister Christine Lagarde shakes hands with Brazil's Central Bank President Alexandre Tombini during a meeting in Brasilia on May 30, 2011 (Ueslei Marcelino/ Courtesy Re…
February 24, 2012
Infrastructure
Gas, Taxes, and Roads: Present Costs and Future Benefits
In 1992, the price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States averaged $1.13; in Maryland, the state tax on that gas was 23.5 cents per gallon, roughly 20 percent of the pump price. Most other stat…
May 7, 2012
Defense and Security
Hello, François Hollande: President of France
Streaks are made to be broken. After seventeen years on the outside looking in, a Socialist Party candidate has finally returned to the French presidency. François Hollande defeated Nicolas Sarkozy b…
July 5, 2012
International Organizations
Assessing Rio: Silver Linings to Cloudy Forecast
Ultimately, the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, seemed to fly by with a flurry of coverage but no clear conclusions. Many observers dismissed the final communiqué as “283 pa…
