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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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February 21, 2005
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
The confused conservatives on the Washington Post oped page …
The Washington Post put out an oped on the partial privatization of Social Security over the weekend, which Kevin Drum appropriately jumped on.One item in the oped jumped out at me:The second risk i…
September 12, 2005
China
Show me the money (really, show me China’s reserves)
China's Alan Greenspan (Zhou Xiaochuan) has indicated China won't roil financial markets with "active composition adjustments of the foreign reserves." fine. But any central bank adding about $20 …
June 26, 2007
Monetary Policy
Do foreign holdings of US debt put the US economy at risk?
I am testifying later today (gulp) before the House budget committee -- and the time that normally goes into writing blog posts has gone into preparing my written testimony. That means I haven't had…
December 15, 2009
India
Shoals Ahead for the United States and India?
Photo courtesy of REUTERS/Jason Reed Manmohan Singh has come and gone, but his visit to Washington last month leaves several questions unanswered about the future of U.S.-India relations. Comparison…
March 22, 2010
China
Where’s the Tipping Point in U.S.-China Relations?
Photo Courtesy of REUTERS/Jason Lee Some of my old State Department colleagues tell me that the current downturn in U.S.-China relations is nothing new. It’s just countercyclical, they say. “Remem…
