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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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February 28, 2007
China
Why is China’s government trying so hard to hold down China’s current living standard? And investing so much of China’s savings in depreciating assets?
Dr. DeLong is engaged is a rather spirited debate over at TPMCafe – one that mirrors the debate inside the Democratic party. It is a debate over trade, but it also is a debate over US grand strategy…
October 8, 2019
Taiwan
Could Taiwan’s Commercial Banks Cover the Lifers' Hedging Need? (Part 4)
Who is on the other side of the massive ($250 billion) hedging need of Taiwan's life insurance industry? The local banking system covers at most a quarter of the life insurers hedging need, and forei…
November 30, 2005
Financial Markets
Tracking petrodollars (or petroeuros) — once more
I tend to agree with Stephen Roach more often than naught. But every now and again, I do disagree with him. And I am not convinced that petrodollars, are well, no longer petrodollars. That is, t…
January 24, 2008
Financial Markets
Property without power?
Diplomatic sovereign wealth funds argue, more or less, that they have no desire for power - so there should be no restrictions on their ability to accumulate property. Those hoping for a cut of the S…
August 6, 2012
Egypt
Sinai Again
In light of Sunday’s events in which a dozen Egyptian policemen were killed near the Rafah border in addition to ongoing violence in Gaza, I am re-posting three pieces I have written on Sinai over th…
