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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 5, 2006
Economics
Working to privatize Social Security = working against free trade … and a bit more on the politics of agricultural trade
Privatizing (or eliminating) social security and eliminating the United States remaining barriers to trade fit together well in theory. Both consistent with a philosophy of reducing the government'…
March 4, 2005
Emerging Markets
A few lessons for Mary Anastasia O Grady
I do not expect to consistently agree with the oped page of the Wall Street Journal. But I do not think it is too much to ask that the columnists on oped page of the Journal try to square their argu…
September 8, 2015
Fossil Fuels
Now What’s That Got to Do with the Price of Oil?
This post was co-written with Peyton Kliefoth, an economics major at Northwestern University and research intern at the Council. Over the weekend, I published a piece in Fortune Magazine explainin…
June 15, 2010
Energy and Climate Policy
Simulating the Effects of Kerry-Lieberman on Energy Security
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about the Chamber of Commerce’s new Energy Security Risk Index. At the end of the post, I asked a question: “It will be interesting… to see how various energy and climate…
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 …
