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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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December 22, 2014
United States
Ten Americans Who Died in 2014 Who Shaped U.S. Foreign Policy
As 2014 comes to a close, here are ten influential U.S. foreign policy figures who passed away this year.
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 …
November 21, 2006
Europe
The booms in Spanish and Irish real estate make the US real estate boom look timid
I have outsourced Thanksgiving blogging to Charles Gottlieb of the Center for European policy studies in Brussels. (Charles.gottlieb at ceps.be)His topic: The Spanish and Irish housing booms (or bu…
