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June 4, 2013
Enhancing the Obama Administration’s Drone Strikes Transparency
Two weeks ago, President Barack Obama gave a wide-ranging speech on U.S. counterterrorism policies. The result has been significant confusion regarding targeted killings, because what was reported in…
October 9, 2019
Taiwan
$130+ Billion in Undisclosed Foreign Exchange Intervention by Taiwan's Central Bank
Based on the profits and losses disclosed by Taiwan’s central bank, it appears that its true FX exposures exceed its disclosed foreign exchange reserves by USD 130bn, and perhaps by as much as USD 20…
May 7, 2012
Defense and Security
Hello, François Hollande: President of France
Streaks are made to be broken. After seventeen years on the outside looking in, a Socialist Party candidate has finally returned to the French presidency. François Hollande defeated Nicolas Sarkozy b…
January 13, 2006
United States
On the origins of dark matter
Stephen "Current accounts almost always don't matter" Jen is intrigued by Ricardo Hausmann and Fredrico Struzenegger's discovery of dark matter. Lots of others are too. Michael Mandel for…
December 4, 2013
Israel
A Conversation About Israel
Israeli columnist Ari Shavit just came out with a new book, My Promised Land, that is receiving tremendous media attention in the United States. I joined Ari and David Remnick, editor of The New York…
April 9, 2007
Monetary Policy
What have the world’s central banks been up to? The latest Treasury survey provides some clues
I suspect I am one of a very small number of people who eagerly awaits the publication of the Treasury’s annual survey for foreign portfolio investment. Wall Street doesn’t find it particularly u…
December 8, 2014
Global
Ten Elections to Watch in 2015
Numerous countries will hold elections in 2015. Here are ten to watch.
March 31, 2011
Politics and Government
Is Operation Odyssey Dawn Constitutional? Part III
Yesterday I noted that many legal scholars believe that while the text of the Constitution may not have given presidents an independent war-making authority, they have acquired that through two …
January 27, 2012
Fossil Fuels
How Not To Argue That We’re Running Out Of Affordable Oil
I made a New Year’s resolution to spend less time on this blog explaining why other people are wrong. But New Year’s resolutions are meant to be broken -- and some things just beg for intervention. …
August 5, 2005
Capital Flows
China, the US and the geopolitics of oil
The CNOOC Unocal saga is over. But CNOOC's ambitions remain: Energy market experts now expect Cnooc, which is controlled by the Beijing government, to explore opportunities throughout the Asia-Pa…