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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 8, 2019
Taiwan
Could Taiwan’s Commercial Banks Cover the Lifers' Hedging Need? (Part 4)
Who is on the other side of the massive ($250 billion) hedging need of Taiwan's life insurance industry? The local banking system covers at most a quarter of the life insurers hedging need, and forei…
December 21, 2006
Emerging Markets
Crises of too much v. crises of too little
I was not all that impressed by the “day after” coverage of Thailand’s capital controls in the financial press. Everyone initially looked for parallels to 1997 – and signs that the most recen…
December 20, 2012
United States
Middle East Matters’ Ten Most Significant Developments of 2012
Here it is: the second annual Middle East Matters year-end roundup listing the ten most significant Middle East developments of 2012. Since this blog focuses on the interplay between U.S. policy and …
November 30, 2007
Financial Markets
Is the dollar’s decline over?
The Economist put the dollar on its cover this week. The Economist’s cover is usually a lagging, not a leading, indicator: it signals that the dollar already has fallen significantly, and sometime…
November 17, 2008
Financial Markets
The G-20 communique
The G-20’s communiqué offered a surprisingly robust work program for regulatory reform. MIT’s Simon Johnson even worries that it may be too robust – and push banks to scale back their lending in a …