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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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September 21, 2006
China
Why China’s $1 trillion in reserves are unlikely to be of much use in a banking crisis
It is rather hard to read Andrew Browne’s report of the building boom in Zhengzhou in last week’s Wall Street Journal --- or for that matter many other accounts of China’s current investment boom – a…
April 28, 2006
Why does China have a looser monetary policy than the United States?
We know why the global economy grew strongly in the first quarter. Nothing changed. Or rather, the basic pattern that has driven global growth for the past few years intensified.The US continued t…
November 8, 2006
China
Absence of global rebalancing watch - first q4 data point from China edition
I spent last night following the outcome of the US election. It looks like a majority of US electorate tired of Bush Administrations policies (and Rummy) before the rest of the world tired of finan…
October 15, 2012
United States
You Might Have Missed: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976
Highlights from the recently-released Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Volume XXXVII, Energy Crisis 1974-1980 Minutes of the Secretary of State’s Staff Meeting, October 22, 1974 …
March 29, 2012
United States
The Power of Witness: Imagery and Mass Atrocities
* coauthored with my research associate, Emma Welch Warning: This blog post contains graphic images. Last week, I was fortunate to attend a workshop at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Power of…
