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November 30, 2011

Space
A Space Code of Conduct

An unmanned Progress supply vehicle approaches the International Space Station on April 7, 2010 (Courtesy Reuters/NASA). But outer Space At least this far, For all the fuss Of the populace Sta…

An unmanned Progress supply vehicle approaches the International Space Station on April 7, 2010 (Courtesy Reuters/NASA)

May 21, 2020

COVID-19
Challenges of Global Governance Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

Representatives from the Council of Councils institutes discuss COVID-19 and its effects on global governance.

A worker wearing a protective suit disinfects a globe-shaped public garden, following the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Algiers, Algeria, on March 23, 2020.

May 8, 2013

United States
The Shrinking U.S. Labor Force and Fed Policy

Does the large drop in the U.S. labor force participation rate justify a monetary policy that is easier, for longer, than suggested by our models or the Fed’s current description of its policy?  Chri…

The Shrinking U.S. Labor Force and Fed Policy

November 17, 2006

Monetary Policy
The world, in a single graph

Actually, this post should be titled “everything I think I know about the world, in a single graph.”   The following graph combines various measures of dollar reserve growth with data on the overa…

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May 31, 2013

You Might Have Missed: Drone Transparency, Cyber Warfare, and Syria

Michael Riley, “How the U.S. Government Hacks the World,” Bloomberg Businessweek, May 23, 2013. The men and women who hack for the NSA belong to a secretive unit known as Tailored Access Operations…