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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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July 28, 2022
Russia
Russia Tries Journalist, China Celebrates Its Army, UN Meets on Nuclear Weapons, and More
A Moscow court considers the case of Marina Ovsyannikova, a Russian reporter who protested the invasion of Ukraine; China celebrates the ninety-fifth anniversary of its People’s Liberation Army amid …
November 3, 2014
Europe and Eurasia
The ECB Fails to Stress Banks Over the One Critical Variable It Controls: Inflation
Relentlessly falling inflation is bad news for Eurozone banks. It increases the real (inflation-adjusted) value of borrower debt and the real cost of servicing that debt. It causes loan defaults…
September 20, 2012
Monetary Policy
Is Bernanke Right on QE3 and the Mortgage Market?
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke defended QE3 at his September 13 press conference by arguing that it would lower mortgage rates and increase home prices. Over 80% of U.S. household debt is mortgage deb…
July 8, 2009
Europe and Eurasia
Unemployment
Until the economic crisis, many praised the U.S. model of flexible labor markets for promoting faster growth and low unemployment. But flexibility has a cost: the United States is leading the G7 in…
December 29, 2023
2023 in Review
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2023
Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.
