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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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April 6, 2005
Monetary Policy
Sometimes, it is worth listening to what policy makers in emerging economies are saying
The Koreans, I suspect, let the cat out of the bag. Korea knows the value of reserves, and the risks of holding too few reserves. Indeed, absent an IMF loan and a last-second deal with their credit…
July 23, 2007
China
First Blackstone, then Barclays …
The alliance between the Chinese state – lest we forget, still a (nominally) communist state -- and the high priests of global financial capitalism is close to complete. Goldman, Royal Bank o…
March 9, 2012
Defense and Security
Friday File: The Politics of Iran War Fever
Above the Fold. President Obama used his speech to the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee last Sunday and his White House press conference to take his critics to task f…
June 25, 2008
Monetary Policy
A tale of two Asias: China, and almost everyone else
Many emerging Asian economies -- Korea, India, perhaps some others -- are now intervening to keep their currencies up rather than trying to hold them down. Raphael Minder of the Financial Times rep…
August 5, 2010
China
East Asia Summit, Take Two
Photo courtesy of REUTERS/Nyein Chan Naing/Pool A post over at East Asia Forum tweaks my recent blog about America and the East Asia Summit. It argues that I have an "empathy deficit." Here’s how …
