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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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January 13, 2012
Politics and Government
Friday File: Is Obama Reinventing Government?
Above the Fold. My BlackBerry buzzed this morning with email alerts informing me that President Obama intends to ask Congress for authority to merge several of the federal government’s trade- and com…
August 16, 2007
Financial Markets
The dollar, still a currency that you run to?
There clearly has been a flight to liquidity recently. T-bill yields have collapsed (See the Econocator). Perhaps because of the Fed. Perhaps because folks are hoarding cash and nothing that pays…
January 28, 2011
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Friday File: “Friday of Wrath” Tests the Obama Administration
An anti-government protester defaces a picture of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak in Alexandria. (Courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. Just three days after delivering a State of the Union Address that…
December 10, 2010
Congresses and Parliaments
Friday File: Afghanistan Strategy Review
Above the fold. The White House is wrapping up its year-end Afghanistan strategy review. Its conclusion, perhaps not surprisingly, looks to be that the surge strategy President Obama announced a …
February 11, 2011
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Friday File: The Budget Brawl Begins
The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Mediterranean Sea. (Fabrizio Bensch/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. Football season is over, but Washington’s annual budget brawl begins Monday when…
