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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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November 22, 2016
United States
Fiscal Reflation in One Country
President-elect Trump wants to cut taxes and increase investment in U.S. infrastructure (or at least provide a tax break for existing infrastructure investment) and doesn’t seem especially worried if…
February 14, 2017
China
How Serious Is the Threat to Global Financial Stability From a Border-Adjustment Tax?
Neil Irwin’s column on the border-adjustment tax spurred an interesting debate. Irwin notes that a 25 percent rise in the dollar (or even a somewhat smaller rise) would have an impact outside the Uni…
July 30, 2018
Mexico
The Coming U.S.-Mexico Blow-Up
On the eve of Mexico’s election, even before the National Electoral Institute called the results, President Donald Trump tweeted congratulations to the presumptive victor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador…
November 3, 2008
United States
Economic Policy Challenges for the Next Administration
The incoming President faces a series of daunting economic challenges including a global financial crisis, a growing budget deficit, and, as the graph above indicates, a potentially severe recessio…
June 22, 2017
Middle East and North Africa
Kushner's Impossible Task in the Middle East Is the Easy Part
The next several years will likely hold continued violence and instability for the Middle East, where the "Arab Spring" largely failed to produce lasting improvements; these issues are beyond Washing…
