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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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January 13, 2022
State and Local Governments (U.S.)
Understanding the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
Heidi Crebo-Rediker, adjunct senior fellow at CFR, will discuss the provisions in the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and implications for infrastructure projects at the stat…
September 18, 2005
United States
Synthetic CDOs, China and Systemic Risk
I suspect the stock of outstanding synthetic credit derivatives -- $ 1500 b in synthetic CDOs in 2004 v. $300 b or so in 2001, according to Mark Whitehouse of the Wall Street Journal -- is the only t…
December 30, 2005
Economics
Things I got wrong in 2005
Alas, this list is rather long. There is a reason why Mike Dooley ended the first segment of our Econoblog debate by noting that he had been right (and I and other worry warts had been wrong) for 2…
March 27, 2006
United States
Good thing Michael Mandel read my 2004 paper, not my 2005 paper -
With the 2004 paper on US external sustainability, there is at least some possibility that Nouriel's and my dire forecasts will prove to be right. The core argument of that paper is that the contin…
January 18, 2017
China
China’s WTO Entry, 15 Years On
Late last year Tim Duy asked for an assessment of the decision to allow China to join the WTO, now that 15 years have passed. Greg Ip met the call well before I did, in a remarkable essay. But …
