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Introduction
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…
January 7, 2003
CubaNovember 29, 2000, Washington, D.C.– In a significant departure from legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by the president last month, a high-level task force of conservatives and liber…
May 7, 2005
Economics90s: Hi-tech.00s: Real estate.Check out this nugget from the Washington Post (emphasis added):"Jackpot" is how Ileann Jimenez-Sepulveda describes it. Like Klein, she bought a house in Columbia Height…
August 17, 2005
EconomicsOr more precisely, how long the stimulus from rising house values (and the jobs created building and selling houses) can offset the drag of the (growing) oil tax. Read John Makin in today's Wall St…
October 25, 2005
United StatesLast Thursday, I had the opportunity to testify before the Joint Economic Committee on the US current account deficit, as part of the panel that followed Dr. Bernanke's testimony. I strongly suspe…
April 20, 2006
EconomicsThe policy makers gathered in Washington this weekend listened to Martin Wolf's advice. And skimmed his powerpoints. Everyone with authority in the global economy read Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti's…