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June 3, 2005
Economics
If Roach says 3.5% and Gross says 3%, someone else has to say 2.5%
Roach and Gross could not stay among the most bullish on bonds for very long. From Marc Gilbert’s column today.Gabe Borenstein, managing director of global investments at Investec Holdings Ltd. in N…
March 17, 2009
Financial Markets
"Concentrations of risk, plagued with deadly correlations"
The FT’s Gillian Tett makes a simple but important point: AIG’s role in the credit default swap market meant that a lot of risk that the bank regulators thought had been dispersed into many strong ha…
December 2, 2014
Guest Post: Chinese Troops in Africa: Protecting Civilians and Oil
Sean J. Li is an intern in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. China announced in September that it would send a battalion of seven-hundred infantry soldiers to re…
August 18, 2005
Public Health Threats and Pandemics
Council Fellow Laurie Garrett’s rebuttal to Siegel interview
Laurie Garrett, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, writes a rebuttal to Marc Siegel’s views on epidemics. [Dr. Siegel] demands absolute certainty before he will a…
March 11, 2014
Ukraine
Can the OSCE Defuse Ukrainian Tensions?
Though overshadowed by NATO and the EU in recent years, the OSCE may offer the most palatable forum for Russia and the West to de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine, says expert Richard Gowan.