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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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January 2, 2008
United States
America’s Achilles heel?
Before my September lecture on the relationship (if any) between external debt and external power, I read a lot of Niall Ferguson. I even used the financial troubles of Egypt’s khedive - troubles Dr…
June 13, 2014
The World Next Week: Books to Read This Summer
The World Next Week podcast is up. This week, Bob McMahon and I took a break from our regular discussion of next week’s news to kick off the summer with some reading recommendations. We were joined b…
March 13, 2007
China
Forget multilateral coordination; let China do it
Fred Bergsten has long advocated in favor of a bit more exchange rate coordination – both to limit volatility and to try to avoid large misalignments among the major currencies. Right now, the most…
June 12, 2006
United States
Calculation envy - the last US owned Treasury bill will be bought by the People’s Bank in 2012 …
Niall Ferguson had a big weekend. His article on the United States’ propensity to go into debt gets published in the New York Times Magazine. He compares the US economy to a dinosaur named debtlod…
October 8, 2018
India
Review: America’s Deep History With South Asia
Srinath Raghavan's history of U.S. involvement in South Asia—primarily India, Pakistan and Afghanistan—provides a rich backdrop of lessons for today’s U.S. policymakers as they consider dilemmas in t…
