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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 5, 2006
United States
Is national income accounting biased against the US?
In a fake news classic, Rob Corddry and Jon Stewart of the Daily Show once pondered how to report "the facts" when "the facts themselves were biased." Michael Mandel seems to think the facts are bia…
July 16, 2007
Financial Markets
Hmmm - maybe imported labor can not keep a lid on inflation in the Gulf
One of the standard arguments why the GCC currencies' depreciation – they, after all, generally peg to the dollar – won’t lead to high rates of inflation is that the GCC countries are open to both im…
July 23, 2007
China
First Blackstone, then Barclays …
The alliance between the Chinese state – lest we forget, still a (nominally) communist state -- and the high priests of global financial capitalism is close to complete. Goldman, Royal Bank o…
February 22, 2010
Technology and Innovation
Race between Innovation and Security
With Rob Knake, I have a new piece up on Yale Global Online about the race between innovation and security. We use the hacking of Google not to focus on human rights or cyberwar, but rather to show …
May 3, 2010
Cybersecurity
Apples Are to Oranges As Cyber Is To?
Photo courtesy of flickr/Dano Cyber conflict remains an issue in search of a conceptual framework. In his widely noted, and controversial piece in the Washington Post, Michael McConnell, the forme…
