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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 28, 2008
Emerging Markets
$1 trillion, $100, $1.50
A lot of milestones have been passed in the last few days. Most aren’t positive for the United States. Nouriel Roubini is no longer the only economist putting the eventual toll of the financial crisi…
July 31, 2008
China
Back to the future: Is China’s new RMB policy China’s old RMB policy?
The odds that the US slipped into a recession around the turn of the year have increased. Nouriel Roubini is convinced. Jim Hamilton isn’t. The risk that US growth may slow later the in year …
September 5, 2008
China
Interesting
One of my usual laugh lines is that the CIC isn’t a sovereign wealth fund; it is a sovereign loss-minimization fund. After all, selling debt denominated in an appreciating currency (and one that…
May 28, 2010
China
China’s Litmus Test: Stability or Status Quo on the Korean Peninsula?
Photo courtesy of REUTERS/Jo Yong hak South Korean President Lee Myung-bak’s formal announcement of a robust set of countermeasures against North Korea in response to the sinking of the Cheonan have…
June 4, 2010
China
China’s Tough Choices
Photo courtesy of REUTERS/CCTV via Reuters TV Remember all those books and articles about a “power shift” in Asia, or China “eating America’s lunch,” or the relentless advance of Beijing’s soft powe…
