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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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November 4, 2016
Sub-Saharan Africa
A Review of Stephen Ellis’ "This Present Darkness"
This is a guest post by Tyler Lycan. Tyler is an intern for the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies program, he recently obtained his Masters in International Security Studies from the Univer…
August 4, 2006
China
Stephen Jen is right
That is not something I say all the time. I suspect I am among Stephen Jen's prototypes for what he calls structural dollar bear. And Stephen " “current account deficits inside the dollar zone…
October 9, 2006
United States
Stephen Jen, Eternal optimist
Apparently, the US fiscal deficit is set to disappear and the US current account deficit has peaked. At least it has in Stephen Jen-land. In his latest email Jen writes: “US’s corporate revenues ar…
October 6, 2004
Capital Flows
Cheney is wrong: $80 billion in debt relief if not equal to $80 billion in cash
Last night, Vice President Cheney claimed that US allies were contributing $80 billion to the war in Iraq by providing Iraq with debt relief. He compared this $80 billion in debt relief to the cash …
May 3, 2006
Financial Markets
Stephen Jen knows currencies, not communiqués
Stephen – the dollar will go down, but “ the US will not adopt a weak dollar policy … and the sky will not fall on the dollar” – Jen has gotten the course of a the dollar/ euro roughly right for the …