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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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August 13, 2011
Elections and Voting
Campaign 2012: Hello Rick Perry, GOP Presidential Candidate
Texas Governor Rick Perry delivers remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on February 11, 2011. (Jonathan Ernst/courtesy Reuters) For seventeen of the past forty-eigh…
July 16, 2015
Elections and Voting
Campaign 2016: Governor Scott Walker, GOP Presidential Candidate
Twelve Americans have become president without having earned a college degree. (Two of them are on Mount Rushmore.) Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who studied at Marquette University but left befor…
July 30, 2007
Monetary Policy
The shift toward sovereign wealth funds: the policy debate
Both the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal have done a great job reporting on the rise of sovereign wealth funds. Joanna Chung and Tony Tassel’s nuanced analysis of the impact of sovereig…
April 13, 2015
Politics and Government
Campaign 2016: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Democratic Presidential Candidate
Pakistan has had one. So have Great Britain, Indonesia, Poland, Ukraine, and four dozen other countries. Argentina, Brazil, and Germany have one right now. But the United States has never had a woman…
July 26, 2005
Europe
Mining European data
I spent some time over the weekend delving into the Eurozone balance of payments data published by the ECB in its monthly bulletin, looking for insights into the global flow of funds. But to jazz thi…