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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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June 10, 2013
Defense and Security
TWE Remembers: JFK’s "Strategy of Peace" Speech
Commencement addresses have figured prominently in American foreign policy. Whether it was FDR ending the pretense that the United States would remain rigidly neutral in World War II in a speech at t…
January 30, 2006
Emerging Markets
It is hard to bet on curve flattening when the curve is already flat
Or spread compression when spreads have already compressed. As David Altig kindly noted, I was quoted in Clint Riley's Wall Street Journal story about the impact of a flat yield curve on bank earning…
July 15, 2014
Israel
On the Death of a Friend in Israel
On the Death of a Friend in Israel My friend Elhanan Harlev died on July 1st after a long illness. We had an odd friendship. He was an Israeli by way of Germany and Argentina. I am a kid from Long I…
January 6, 2015
Five Reasons for Slow Growth
A remarkable pattern has emerged since the 2008 global financial crisis: Governments, central banks, and international financial institutions have consistently had to revise their growth forecasts do…
July 18, 2019
Development
Development Turns Competitive With Mixed Results
A vast gulf remains between development financing and development goals. International competition could help bridge that gap, but has produced mixed results to date.
