Iran is back in the spotlight for its alleged nuclear weapons program, and this time the international pressure to dismantle will be strong. United Nations nuclear inspectors have found traces of extremely highly enriched uranium in Iran, of a purity reserved for use in a nuclear bomb. Iran...
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Climate scientists warn that global warming is underway, promising severe disruptions for economies. The Trump administration denies climate change is a crisis and resists pullback on fossil fuels. Yet officials at all levels of government and business – financial, insurance, health and more – must...
Fed Readies Financial System for Climate-Change Shocks
The Wall Street Journal: The Federal Reserve stands ready to respond to climate-change related weather disruptions to the economy and is working to ensure banks’ resilience from unexpected...
Russia hopes to wield control over bordering states like Ukraine and block them from close ties with the United States and the European Union. The US and EU countered Russia’s military intervention in eastern Ukraine with sanctions and Russia responded by targeting McDonald’s restaurants as...
As the European Union and the United States ramp up their sanctions on Russia, President Vladimir Putin’s plans for retaliation seem to include an attack on McDonald’s. There could not be a more powerful symbol that geopolitics is increasingly...
Advances in technology continue to reduce the need for many low-skilled positions in the United States, reported Federal Chair Janet Yellen to the House Financial Services Committee. She also targeted a limited form of globalization – outsourcing workplaces and jobs to other countries – for...
Planes and ships from governments and international relief organizations stand ready to deliver food, water, equipment and personnel to sections of Myanmar devastated by Cyclone Nargis. The military government of the country once known as Burma has announced it will accept cash and emergency...
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For the first time, Hewlett-Packard has used a company other than Intel to supply them with microprocessors for one of their business PC’s. In these times of “economic belt-tightening,” IT companies have begun to branch out in an effort to corner other markets. Dell recently released a “white-box...
For a long time, there were certain facts about the PC business generally considered to be universal truths. For example, there were two types of PCs - one that ran Microsoft Windows and one that ran the Macintosh OS (...
One country’s success with exports should generate appreciation for competition and not envy, suggests a German publication. The US Department of Treasury released a report that notes “Germany’s anemic pace of domestic demand growth and dependence on exports have hampered rebalancing at a time when...
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埃及总统作出放弃谋求连任的让步，他的支持者同倡导民主的示威者之间发生冲突，随着上述事态的发展，埃及局势岌岌可危。示威游行还导致约旦现政府的解散，迫使也门总统承诺在其现任期满后不再谋求连任。眼下，中东正位于十字路口，本期耶鲁全球系列文章，探讨的是美国和地区大国所面临的挑战。在上篇中，记者苏珊•弗洛切尔（Susan Froetschel）指出，美国一面口头宣称拥护民主和人权、一面支持独裁政权的对外政策已遭遇“搁浅”。正如“维基解密”（WikiLeaks）发布的美国国务院电报中含有官员私下讨论的报告中所揭示的，华盛顿方面意识到政府的现行政策非长久之计。独裁统治者承诺施行改革，却对权力让渡一拖再拖，...
人民的力量：聚集在开罗解放广场（Tahrir Square）的埃及民众要求总统胡斯尼•穆巴拉克（Hosni Mubarak）下台；2009年，奥巴马总统与穆巴拉克站在一起，是时候分道扬镳了。
华盛顿：中东地区的民愤暴露了美国中东政策的内在矛盾——美国一方面寻求加强同阿拉伯 独裁政权以及同民主国家以色列和土耳其的关系，另一方面则呼吁推行循序渐进的改革以提升人权，其中东政策正是基于在这两者间保持一种平衡。然而，在执行过 程中，该政策最终倒向了一边：扶持以色列的军事优势，...