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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 3, 2015
Afghanistan
Kunduz Airstrike and Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan
This blog post updated an earlier post, and was again coauthored with my research associate, Amelia M. Wolf. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reported that its hospital in Kun…
February 10, 2014
International Organizations
Tracking Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan
This blog post was coauthored with my research associate, Amelia M. Wolf. Since the Afghanistan war began twelve years and four months ago, the fate of innocent civilians has been a constant focus o…
September 16, 2020
Currency Reserves
Asian Intervention in the Foreign Exchange Market is Back. Bigly.
Joe Gagnon and Fred Bergsten have called the years from 2003 to 2013 the decade of manipulation, as a host of Asian countries protected their competitive position of their exporters by intervening ma…
August 29, 2016
Monetary Policy
Is The Dirty Little Secret of FX Intervention That It Works?
Foreign exchange intervention has long been one of those things that works better in practice than in theory.* Emerging markets worried about currency appreciation certainly seem to believe it wor…
June 17, 2019
International Economic Policy
Three Recommended Changes to U.S. Currency Policy
I have a new Policy Innovation Memo that recommends three changes to U.S. currency policy, and specifically, three changes to the U.S. Treasury’s Foreign Exchange report: 1. The Foreign Currency r…
