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Wednesday Night #1363
April 16, 2008, 1 Comment

First, we would draw your attention to last Wednesday’s discussion of China, Tibet & the Olympics – a nu ...

Jeffrey Sachs: "Common Wealth"
April 16, 2008, Comments Off on Jeffrey Sachs: "Common Wealth"

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet Sachs appeal April 16 Charlie Rose: A conversation with Jeffrey Sachs Mar ...

Global Monitoring Report 2008
April 11, 2008, Comments Off on Global Monitoring Report 2008

World Bank IMF IMF’s Global economic prospects for 2009 (.pdf) April 11 Climate Change Rises On World Bank Agenda ...

China, Beijing Olympics
April 8, 2008, 3 Comments

 See also Tibet and The Olympic Protest Primer April 24 China to clear out students, refugees before Olympics Beijing & ...

Asian Inflation
April 8, 2008, Comments Off on Asian Inflation

April 8 2008 Asian Inflation Begins to Sting U.S. Shoppers By KEITH BRADSHER (NYT) BAT TRANG, Vietnam — For two genera ...

Wednesday Night #1360
March 26, 2008, 1 Comment

Bhutan In contrast to the chaos and violence of many elections in emerging democracies (not to mention some of those tha ...

Iraq 5 years later
March 24, 2008, Comments Off on Iraq 5 years later

The $3 Trillion War, Josephy Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes (Vanity Fair, April 2008) After wildly lowballing the cost of the ...

Wednesday Night #1359
March 19, 2008, 1 Comment

We had promised that Beryl would be with us last week to talk about the new publication, The MetropolitaIn, that he will ...

Wednesday Night #1358
March 12, 2008, 3 Comments

It seems we are stuck in a topic rut and not only in terms of frequency, quantity and quality of snowfall. The news appe ...

Bush and OPEC
March 6, 2008, Comments Off on Bush and OPEC

March 6 208 — Chakib Khelil, OPEC’s president this year, said at a meeting in Vienna that the high price of oil ...

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