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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 5, 2005
Capital Flows
Competitve compassion: the coming development debate
Act one: Tsunami. A few well-timed comments on stinginess produced an outpouring of aid.Act two: The UK plans a "development" G-8 summit. The summit won’t happen for a while, but the real negotiati…
March 8, 2005
United States
The sharecropper society
I suspect Warren Buffet would agree with Bill Gross.There is one easy way to make it easier for the US to deal with its own aging population: Stop promising so much of our future income to support th…
June 8, 2005
Economics
Greenspan’s conundrum and oil
The most profitable sector of the Chinese economy, according to data from UBS. Mining. It is not even close. I presume that includes mining for oil. Remember that. I will return to it in a bit.A…
March 18, 2006
United States
What Geithner said. And then some
Most of the blogosphere has already weighed in on Tim Geithner's most recent speech. I am a bit late to the party. And I may not have much to add. I deeply agree with Geithner's argument that th…
April 12, 2006
United States
Watch for imports to surge in March
China's March trade surplus topped $11b - and its goods exports were a very impressive $78 billion. China February surplus was about $2.5 billion, and its exports only 54.1 billion. China had an im…
