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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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February 5, 2006
United States
Is national income accounting biased against the US?
In a fake news classic, Rob Corddry and Jon Stewart of the Daily Show once pondered how to report "the facts" when "the facts themselves were biased." Michael Mandel seems to think the facts are bia…
April 4, 2005
United States
McKinsey says the trade deficit does not matter
What is good for IBM (oops, Lenovo) is good for America.OK, that is a cheap shot.Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal published a column by Jon Hilsenrath that drew on work by Diana Farrell and the McKins…
July 18, 2007
China
$136 billion here, $131b there and pretty soon you are talking about real money …
China announced that it added $130.6b to its reserves in the second quarter, only a bit smaller than the $135.7b it added in the first quarter. Most of the increase was real: if China had 5% of its …
September 30, 2011
Defense and Security
Friday File: Where Do the GOP Candidates Stand on China’s Rise?
Above the Fold. China’s rise presents perhaps the most significant challenge to American foreign policy over the next decade. Here’s one concern: China’s growing force of long-range precision mi…
March 23, 2007
Emerging Markets
Chindia (or maybe not)
The similarities between China and India have seized many (see Martin Wolf's column and the resulting discussion). Both China and India have enormous populations -- and enormous scope to increase t…