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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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May 28, 2005
A prediction: China will eventually protect its agricultural sector
You know, the global norm is not free trade in agriculture ... If China doesn’t want its peasants to compete against subsidized US and European agricultural exports, I suspect that it has a range of …
August 1, 2005
China
Summarizing China in one paragraph …
is hard, but James McGregor gave it a go in the Sunday Washington Post: It is difficult to overstate the transformation that has swept China in the past 15 years. To frame it in terms of comparable h…
August 24, 2005
United States
Are we ignoring the United States’ strengths?
Anantha Nageswaran of Libran Asset Management in Singapore has submitted a set of (lengthy) comments that respond, in some sense, to many of the points I and others have raised on this blog. Check …
January 11, 2006
China
China’s December trade
The most impressive part of China's most recent trade data: 18% y/y growth in December exports. That pushed China's monthly exports up to $75.4 billion, and laid the basis for a $11 billion monthly…
April 3, 2006
China
Grassley-Baucus-Adams? And (another) long rant about the Economist …
The Treasury doesn't want to declare China to be guilty of manipulation. Picking a fight with one of your biggest creditors isn't smart. Right now, no one is buying more US debt (China buys a lot …
