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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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January 24, 2005
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Hubbard is in pole position: the Sunday New York Time buried the lede
Apparently the Federal Reserve is beginning to worry that the Administration is not all that serious about reducing the fiscal deficit ... Wonder why. It seems like Martin Feldstein’s concerns abou…
November 6, 2005
Economics
What risks should the American workforce assume in a more global economy?
Sebastian Mallaby had an interesting column in last Monday's Washington Post. Mallaby highlights what he calls the biggest economic argument of the day -- namely, what role does the government have…
January 13, 2006
United States
On the origins of dark matter
Stephen "Current accounts almost always don't matter" Jen is intrigued by Ricardo Hausmann and Fredrico Struzenegger's discovery of dark matter. Lots of others are too. Michael Mandel for one. Se…
August 3, 2007
China
What RMB appreciation?
There is a tendency to equate the RMB/ dollar with the RMB. That most often shows up in tendency to equate an appreciation of the RMB against the dollar with an appreciation of the RMB. That is a…
December 16, 2010
Politics and Government
Tea Parties
Two hundred and thirty seven years ago today the Sons of Liberty dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. It must have been unseasonably warm in Boston in December 1773. The arctic blast now g…
