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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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May 12, 2017
U.S. Foreign Policy
Moored to Memory: The Problem of the Past in U.S.-Australia Relations
Now that the reverie aboard the USS Intrepid has receded into memory, it is time to ask just what, precisely, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull achieved on his recent visit to New York and m…
November 21, 2003
United Kingdom
Hoge: Bush’s Image and Message Likely Enhanced by Trip to Britain
Warren Hoge, the chief London correspondent for The New York Times, says that as a result of his trip to Britain, President Bush “has certainly improved his image” overseas. What remains t…
June 10, 2008
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Shhh.. don’t tell any one. The US trade deficit is getting worse, not better
The $60.9 billion monthly April trade deficit was the largest monthly deficit since last March. So much for the notion that the trade deficit has turned the proverbial corner. One price explains …
May 18, 2007
China
Exchange rates don’t matter. At not least not the RMB/ dollar …
Sometimes it seems that the larger China’s current account surplus – and the bigger the share of the US current account deficit financed by China’s government – the more insistent the Economist becom…
April 6, 2008
Financial Markets
A RMB that isn’t appreciating cannot be killing you …
The premise of Joe Nocera’s New York Times story “Two factories, two firms” is logical enough: an appreciating RMB should hurt a low-end, cost-conscious textile exporter and help a higher-end manufac…