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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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March 27, 2014
We Don’t Know If Our Patent System is Working
“Innovation” is a hot buzzword in Washington. In a city gripped by partisanship, being pro-innovation is something everyone can agree on. One of the most direct ways the federal government participat…
October 11, 2006
United States
The use and misuse of (certain) statistics
It seems, as Shuda Senoy notes, that consumer goods are falling as a share of US imports: "the proportion of consumption in imports has been falling, i.e., the proportion of industrial inputs has b…
October 30, 2006
Financial Markets
Can David Rosenberg out-Roubini Roubini?
Nouriel “If you are going to be a bear, might as well be a grizzy” Roubini has a bit of competition. Merrill’s David Rosenberg now puts the odds of a recession at up to 80% “HSBC, US Bank ... now pe…
January 6, 2012
Defense and Security
Friday File: Are We Near a Showdown with Iran?
Above the Fold. Pundits who predicted that Iran would top the list of foreign policy problems in 2012 have early evidence that they were right. President Obama signed legislation over the holiday bre…
March 4, 2011
Elections and Voting
Campaign 2012: Hello Newt Gingrich, GOP Presidential Candidate?
Newt Gingrich addresses the 38th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. (Larry Downing/courtesy Reuters) Someone had to go first. So Newt Gingrich did. While the other major …
