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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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October 13, 2023
Inequality
Women This Week: Nobel Prize Winner Highlights Gender Pay Gap
Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers October 7 to October 13.
May 29, 2007
Emerging Markets
Private capital now flows to places that don’t need it
The World Bank’s annual report on capital flows to developing countries highlights two facts that shouldn’t be much of a surprise: Developing economies – the World Bank’s definitions leaves out th…
January 17, 2023
United States
The Violent Far-Right Terrorist Threat to the Republican Party and American Conservatism
In addition to minority communities and those on the political left, far-right and white supremacist extremism threatens violence against Republicans as well.
March 8, 2006
Emerging Markets
The market concludes (many) risks do not exist. And then it reevaluates.
I was going to write about how the markets have concluded that risk does not exist.After all, early last week, the market thought that dollar bonds issued by emerging economies were not that much mor…
May 4, 2005
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Systemic risk and the thirty year bond …
I have long worried that as the carry trade gets less profitable (i.e. the difference between the interest rate on short-term and long-term debt falls), hedge funds would respond by doubling up their…