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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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October 21, 2008
China
The end of Bretton Woods 2?
In late 2004, Nouriel Roubini and I wrote that “the tensions created [by the Bretton Woods 2 system] are large, large enough to crack the system in the next three to four years.” In a 2005 Wall Stre…
May 13, 2019
Global Governance
How the Paris Agreement Model Could Help Ward Off the Next Mass Extinction
Biodiversity is declining faster than at any time in human history. A bankrupt biosphere, however, is not yet destiny. To reverse course, nations must take a page from the Paris Agreement on climate …
January 2, 2005
United States
Bretton Woods Two Lives
The Fed has started to tighten, Greenspan said anyone who has not hedged their interest rate risk desires to lose money. Yet higher short-term rates have not led to higher long-term rates. In the j…
October 3, 2006
Monetary Policy
Bretton Woods 2 lives
The IMF released its data on global reserve growth on Friday. And – to no one’s real surprise – the IMF data indicated that there is one key reason why capital flows uphill in today’s global econom…