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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 28, 2015
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
A Roadmap for Ukraine
U.S. and European efforts to resolve the Ukraine crisis seem to be finding their stride in recent days. U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter ended months of “will they won’t they?” by announcing earl…
June 29, 2006
Emerging Markets
Levered long/ long funds …
An anonymous partner at a mid-sized London hedge fund expressed something I was trying to say a couple of weeks ago fair better than I could have. From the Financial Times: "A lot of managers…
February 17, 2017
India
India Makes Progress on Solar, But Barriers Remain
This guest post is co-authored by Sarang Shidore, a visiting scholar at the LBJ School at the University of Texas at Austin, and Joshua Busby, associate professor of public affairs at the Robert S. S…
April 14, 2014
Egypt
Powering the Way to a Darker Tomorrow: Coal Cannot Solve Egypt’s Energy Crisis
I am pleased to cross post the following article with my friends at The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy. Allison McManus’ timely post on the problems in Egypt’s energy sector and coal is an …
October 7, 2008
Financial Markets
Russia, global lender of last resort? Will Russia bail out the hedge fund of the North ...
A few years ago, analysts looking at the same data that Dr. Krugman highlighted started to call the US a hedge fund. It borrowed short-term in dollars, providing the world wit a safe liquid asset (or…