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July 29, 2011

Friday File: The Debt Debate Won’t End on Tuesday

Traders work on the main trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange on July 29, 2011. U.S. stocks dropped for a fifth straight day after weak economic data and another setback on a debt deal. (Mike…

Traders work on the main trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange on July 29, 2011. U.S. stocks dropped for a fifth straight day on Friday after weak data on the economy and a setback on a debt deal discouraged investors. (Mike Segar/courtesy Reuters)

Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

October 4, 2010

Development

Evaluating Progress on the UN Millennium Development Goals

Related Readings: President Obama's Speech at the UN MDG Summit, September 2010 MDGs for Women Largely Unmet by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Time for a Rethink by Jagdish N. Bhagwati

Event by Samuel A. Worthington, Robert C. Orr, T. Charles Cooper, and Gail D. Fosler

January 22, 2016

United States

Foreign Policy and the 2016 Primaries

Experts discuss the role that foreign policy will play in the upcoming contests for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations.

Event by Samuel H. Feist, Charles Cook, and Bruce Stokes

January 18, 2009

Monetary Policy

Worry about a fall in China’s demand for the world’s goods, not a fall in China’s demand for Treasuries

Last week, Sam Jones of FT’s Alphaville wrote: If the Chinese economy collapses, or even slows dramatically, then the raison d’etre for the country’s huge FX reserves - as a sterilisation measure to…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

October 4, 2010

Development

Evaluating Progress on the UN Millennium Development Goals

Experts discuss the role of the UN Millennium Development Goals as a framework for new government development policy, the importance of increasing aid funding transparency with developing nations, an…

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