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February 10, 2016

China

December 28, 2017

United States
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2017

Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.

Kohl 1989

April 6, 2017

China
RMB Globalization, Once "Unstoppable," Heads Into Reverse

    “The globalisation of the [Chinese RMB] seems remorseless and unstoppable,” the Economist pronounced in April 2014.  A year later, a research-grant foundation asked me (Benn) to review …

RMB Globalization, Once "Unstoppable," Heads Into Reverse

January 19, 2017

Financial Markets
Mini Mac Trumps the Big Mac

The “law of one price” holds that identical goods should trade for the same price in an efficient market.  But how well does it actually hold internationally? The Economist magazine’s famous Big Mac …

May 22, 2020

State and Local Governments (U.S.)
Risk of COVID-19 Resurgence

Laurie Garrett, science journalist, author, and former senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, discusses the implications of reopening states for a second wave of COVID-1…

Play A healthcare worker in gloves places a COVID-19 nasal swab test into a specimen bottle.