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May 27, 2009

Emerging Markets
Too much, or too little

Free exchange is worried that the Obama Administration wants to change too much: WHEN asked my assessment of the government’s handling of the financial crisis, I usually say it is too soon to tell. …

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

May 14, 2012

Trade
Morning Brief: California Budget Deficit Escalates

California is expected to record a $16 billion deficit this year (LATimes). Earlier this year, Governor Jerry Brown submitted a state budget with a deficit of $9.2 billion. Since that time, tax recei…

California Governor Jerry Brown speaks in front of a California flag in Long Beach, California on March 14, 2012. (Lucy Nicholson/Courtesy Reuters)
Blog Post by Renewing America Staff Renewing America

June 7, 2017

State and Local Governments (U.S.)
Gearing Up the State Department for the Era of State- and City-Level Diplomacy

It might have been former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley’s November 2011 trade delegation to India that first caught my attention. Former Washington Governor Chris Gregoire led another in 2012.   …

Then Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina at an interactive session with entrepreneurs organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry in Chandigarh on November 14, 2014.
Blog Post by Alyssa Ayres Asia Unbound

February 15, 2023

United States
Meet Nikki Haley, Republican Presidential Candidate

The former South Carolina governor and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations announced her candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

Nikki Haley
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

May 21, 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa
Zimbabwe Police Label Nigerian Televangelist a Sorcerer

Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity are powerful forces in sub-Saharan politics. So, too, is the belief in prophecy and sorcery. In Zimbabwe, it is tense times, with uncertainty about President…

HIV/AIDS patient Miss Mary Udoh receives "miraculous healing" from Prophet T.B. Joshua of the synagogue Church For All Nations during a service at Ikotun-Egbe district in Lagos, the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria, in this January 20, 2003 file photo.
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition