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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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March 13, 2013
Defense and Security
Worldwide Threats Briefing Highlights
Yesterday, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) held its annual open hearing on “National Security Threats to the United States.” First started in 1994, the hearing is the rare instance…
June 11, 2012
Defense and Security
Ask the Experts: Preventing Sexual Violence
Last week, forty members of Congress re-introduced the International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA). As Amnesty International’s Cristina Finch explains, the I-VAWA “would coordinate and improve …
June 16, 2015
Defense and Security
Top Ten Findings of the CIA Inspector General’s Report on 9/11
Last week, in response to long-standing FOIA requests, the CIA declassified—with significant redactions—five documents related to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The most notable was a J…
October 16, 2007
Monetary Policy
Why worry about sovereign wealth funds?
Martin Wolf, as usual, is the voice of reason. I highly recommend his most recent column.Dr. Wolf notes that a set of countries with a far different conception of the role of the state in the marke…
November 28, 2005
China
China still pegs to the dollar …
And it intervenes in a big way in both the spot and the forward market. But it doesn't manipulate its currency. At least not technically. The US Treasury - in a widely telegraphed move - decided …