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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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August 24, 2005
United States
Are we ignoring the United States’ strengths?
Anantha Nageswaran of Libran Asset Management in Singapore has submitted a set of (lengthy) comments that respond, in some sense, to many of the points I and others have raised on this blog. Check …
December 4, 2005
Economics
What is the matter with Kansas?
After seeing this graph over at Calculated Risk, I could not resist. It seems my home state has the least housing froth around ...Maybe it has something to do with the fact that a (very young) Univ…
March 4, 2011
Elections and Voting
Campaign 2012: Hello Newt Gingrich, GOP Presidential Candidate?
Newt Gingrich addresses the 38th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. (Larry Downing/courtesy Reuters) Someone had to go first. So Newt Gingrich did. While the other major …
May 18, 2011
Elections and Voting
TWE Mailbag: UN Human Rights Council on Syria, Herman Cain on Afghanistan
An Austrian Post employee sorts letters in Vienna. (Leonhard Foeger/courtesy Reuters) The White House just announced that it has imposed financial sanctions on Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and s…
August 9, 2011
Guest Post: The Crisis in Europe
Greek youths burn the European Union flag during a protest, in Athens (Yiorgos Karahalis/ Courtesy Reuters). As fears mount that the debt crisis could spread to Italy and Spain, markets gyrate an…
