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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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April 18, 2005
Financial Markets
Tactical Issue Linkages
Dan Drezner has an interesting post up, laying out the components of a "serious" approach to encouraging (or pressuring) China to change its exchange rate peg. He nicely lays out the options, thoug…
December 18, 2015
Economics
Budget Deal Oil-for-Renewables Trade Would Substantially Reduce Carbon Emissions
This post is coauthored by Varun Sivaram and Michael Levi. Congress is set to vote on a budget deal that would permanently end the long-standing ban on crude oil exports in exchange for temporary ex…
January 18, 2017
China
China’s WTO Entry, 15 Years On
Late last year Tim Duy asked for an assessment of the decision to allow China to join the WTO, now that 15 years have passed. Greg Ip met the call well before I did, in a remarkable essay. But …
July 24, 2008
Financial Markets
Too big to fail? Or too large to save? Thinking about the US one year into the subprime crisis
Emerging market financial crises in the 1990s followed a fairly consistent pattern. The country lost access to external financing. The sector of the economy that had a large need for financing – fi…
June 27, 2013
United States
The World Next Week: Books to Read This Summer
The World Next Week podcast is up. This week, Bob McMahon and I took a break from our regular discussion of next week’s news to kick off the summer with some reading recommendations. Bob and I beg…
