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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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November 21, 2006
Europe
The booms in Spanish and Irish real estate make the US real estate boom look timid
I have outsourced Thanksgiving blogging to Charles Gottlieb of the Center for European policy studies in Brussels. (Charles.gottlieb at ceps.be)His topic: The Spanish and Irish housing booms (or bu…
October 12, 2008
Financial Markets
On the precipice
Words no Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund ever wants to utter: “Intensifying solvency concerns about a number of the largest US-based and European financial institutions have pu…
February 21, 2011
TWE Celebrates Presidents’ Day Because It Is the Day of Presidents
President George W. Bush meets with former Presidents and President-elect Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, January 2009. (Kevin Lamarque/courtesy Reuters) Being president o…
April 14, 2011
United States
So Much for Soft Power
U.S. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (L) (R-WI) looks at a copy of U.S. President Barack Obama's 2012 budget with ranking Democrat Chris Van Hollen (R) (D-MD). (Jason Reed/Courtesy Reuter…
June 21, 2011
Elections and Voting
Campaign 2012: Hello Jon Huntsman, GOP Presidential Candidate
It’s official. Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor and U.S. ambassador to China, has formally announced that he is a Republican candidate for president. As he promised, Huntsman made the announcem…
