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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 26, 2005
Emerging Markets
Has Argentina changed the rules of the sovereign debt game?
Argentina is on the verge of completing one of the largest sovereign debt restructurings in history. Argentina is seeking to restructure about $82 billion in bonds, plus $21 billion or so in past d…
September 18, 2008
Financial Markets
The scale of central bank (and sovereign fund) intervention in global markets has been breathtaking
I think we now know why the US Treasury is selling Treasury bills like mad to raise money for the Fed. $180 billion is a lot of money to lend to other central banks so that they can supply dollar li…
October 13, 2008
Europe and Eurasia
Iceland in Crisis
The U.S. has left Russia to bail out Iceland with a $5.5 billion loan, even though the U.S. economy is over 11 times the size of Russia's. Is Iceland really of no strategic interest, despite specul…
June 1, 2010
South Korea
The Media and Asymmetry of Attention in the U.S.-ROK Alliance
Shin Gi-wook is Director of The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC); Director of the Korean Studies Program; and the Tong Yang, Korea Foundation, and Korea Stanford Alumni Chai…
August 20, 2010
China
China Assaults the High-Tech Frontier
Photo courtesy of REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV I did a fun panel earlier this week on CNBC’s “Closing Bell” with Maria Bartiromo. She asked a pretty straightforward question: Is China challenging …
