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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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June 1, 2011
Intelligence
Osama Bin Laden’s Death: One Month Later
Tomorrow marks the one month anniversary of President Barack Obama’s appearance before the nation to announce that “the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden.” Accordin…
December 29, 2015
Politics and Government
Ten American Foreign Policy Influentials Who Died in 2015
As 2015 comes to a close, here are ten influential U.S. foreign policy figures who passed away this year.
July 2, 2008
Financial Markets
Read the annual report of the Bank of International Settlements
International institutions usually put out reports filled with turgid and overly-qualified prose. But not the BIS. At least not this year. The introduction and conclusion of its 78th annual rep…
October 4, 2019
Taiwan
Shadow FX Intervention in Taiwan: Solving a 100+ billion dollar enigma (Part 2)
Large-scale purchases of foreign bonds have become the central flow sustaining Taiwan’s massive current account surplus and keeping the Taiwan dollar weak. The size of this flow raises the question o…
April 19, 2006
United States
You can not put dark matter in a container …
So says Michael Mandel. Some of us might say you can't put dark matter in a container because it doesn't really exist.That is not Mandel's argument. He believes in dark matter, though apparently n…