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December 30, 2013

Diplomacy and International Institutions
Remembering Ten World Figures Who Died in 2013

Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.

The sun sets over Clifton Beach in Cape Town, South Africa. (Mike Hutchings/Courtesy Reuters)

September 18, 2005

United States
Synthetic CDOs, China and Systemic Risk

I suspect the stock of outstanding synthetic credit derivatives -- $ 1500 b in synthetic CDOs in 2004 v. $300 b or so in 2001, according to Mark Whitehouse of the Wall Street Journal -- is the only t…

December 15, 2014

Global
Ten Most Significant World Events in 2014

As 2014 comes to a close, here are the top ten most notable world events of the past year.

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December 29, 2014

Global
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2014

Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.

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October 4, 2007

Financial Markets
2007 has been a lot better than 2005 for the dollar bears …

Some no doubt will take a revival of interest in a set of 2004 and 2005 papers (Rogoff-Obstfeld,  Krugman, Roubini-Setser, no doubt others) arguing that a real depreciation in the dollar is needed to…

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