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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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February 27, 2015
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humans and Robots in the Economy
MIT Professor Emeritus and Rethink Robotics Founder Rodney Brooks, Carnegie Mellon's Abhinav Gupta, and MIT's Andrew McAfee, join Nicholas Thompson, editor at NewYorker.com, to discuss artificial int…
August 16, 2013
Military Operations
You Might Have Missed: Spies, Think Tanks, and Stuxnet Realities
Gregory D. Johnsen, “Did an 8-Year-Old Spy for America?” The Atlantic, August 14, 2013. At the time of the meeting, the boy didn’t know that the United States had decided to kill a man named Adnan a…
March 25, 2005
Economics
Trans-Pacific Real Estate Bubbles
If you think that speculation on real estate has replaced the stock market as the US national pastime, try visiting China.I expected Beijing to be one large construction sites, and was not disappoint…
December 16, 2004
Will Americans lose confidence in the dollar before foreign central banks …
There are two groups of investors that are massively overweight US assets: the world’s central banks, who still hold most of their reserves in dollars, and US domestic savers. US residents keep the …
February 26, 2009
Monetary Policy
Who bought all the Treasuries the US issued in 2008? And who will be the big buyers in 2009?
And just how important is China -- clearly now the largest single holder of Treasury bonds -- to the market? Both questions matter more than ever -- to the market, and to the US government. …
