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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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September 16, 2005
United States
Has the US outsourced creative thinking about external adjustment to … France?
Many have noted that President Bush likes French-style vacations. Not so many have noticed that French economists have been at the forefront of thinking about the US current account deficit, and the…
October 26, 2012
Israel
Middle East Matters This Week: Significant Developments in Syria, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, and Egypt
Significant Middle East Developments Syria. A deadly car bomb exploded in Damascus today just hours after the Eid holiday ceasefire, brokered by UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi between Syria’s …
October 25, 2012
China
Will the Real Chinese Leaders Please Stand Up?
For more than two decades beginning in 1956, CBS and then NBC aired a television show “To Tell the Truth,” in which a panel of celebrities attempted to identify which one of three contestants was tel…
December 7, 2005
China
There is a consensus: China needs to consume more
See Olivier Blanchard and Francesco Giavazzi's latest paper on China. Blanchard (last seen on these pages back in September) and Giavazzi have laid out a comprehensive economic program for China, o…
October 12, 2016
United Kingdom
Understanding the Libor Scandal
The manipulation of interbank lending rates by a host of global financial institutions could have significant repercussions for financial markets, consumer loans, and regulatory policy.
