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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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September 18, 2005
United States
Synthetic CDOs, China and Systemic Risk
I suspect the stock of outstanding synthetic credit derivatives -- $ 1500 b in synthetic CDOs in 2004 v. $300 b or so in 2001, according to Mark Whitehouse of the Wall Street Journal -- is the only t…
April 15, 2007
United States
Unimpressive (the results of the IMF’s experiment with multilateral consultation)
Macro Man asked the IMF to sort out a world where the US current account deficit is increasingly financed by the growth in emerging market reserves (and the expansion of a few investment funds). …
March 21, 2011
Politics and Government
Campaign 2012: Hello Tim Pawlenty, GOP Presidential Candidate
Tim Pawlenty speaks during the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition's Spring Event on March 8, 2011. (Brian Frank/courtesy Reuters) Only one Big Ten university has ever graduated an American president—T…
December 8, 2014
Global
Ten Elections to Watch in 2015
Numerous countries will hold elections in 2015. Here are ten to watch.
November 28, 2007
Financial Markets
What should replace the Gulf’s peg to the dollar? More on my Peterson institute policy brief
Oil and the dollar have not consistently moved in the same direction over the past ten years. In 1997/1998, oil tanked and the dollar soared.In 2000, oil and the dollar both rose – in large par…