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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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June 18, 2006
Emerging Markets
A hard landing in 2006 - just not in the US?
Nouriel and I postulated back in early 2005 that there was a meaningful risk that the next “emerging market” crisis might come from the US – and it might come sooner than most expected. The basic q…
September 20, 2006
Europe
Is it Europe’s turn to rise a housing bubble?
Both Morgan Stanley (at least Eric Chaney) and JP Morgan (in their latest global outlook) now recognize that Europe has emerged as an important engine of global demand growth. Indeed, the 2005 sur…
September 12, 2007
United States
A savings glut, not an investment drought -
So argues Ben Bernanke. His basic argument is very simple. The emerging world now has a large and growing current account surplus that finances a large and growing current account defic…
November 21, 2006
Europe
The booms in Spanish and Irish real estate make the US real estate boom look timid
I have outsourced Thanksgiving blogging to Charles Gottlieb of the Center for European policy studies in Brussels. (Charles.gottlieb at ceps.be)His topic: The Spanish and Irish housing booms (or bu…
June 18, 2020
United States
Virtual Roundtable: Racial Inequities of COVID-19
Drs. Lisa Cooper and Leana Wen discuss the racial inequities that exist in the health care field today and how that impacts the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
