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Slave to the Blog: August Catch-Up Edition II
Yesterday, I reviewed some of the most important developments surrounding the peninsula, starting with the North Korean missile tests. Although the mi...
Sep 07, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Brazil’s Post-Impeachment Economics
Financial markets’ renewed fondness for Brazil—the country’s stock market has rallied 60 percent this year—is hard to square with the country’s increa...
Sep 06, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Slave to the Blog: August Catch-Up Edition I
No sooner do we go on vacation then the world goes to hell in a handbasket. More seriously, developments on the Korean peninsula are not good, and the...
Sep 06, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Gloomy Autumn in Store for Europe
Europe is about to experience a hectic start of the political season, with more problems on its hands than at any time in recent years. The euro area ...
Sep 02, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
China's New Economic Frontier: Overcoming Obstacles to Continued Growth
China's economy is at a pivotal moment, as it faces both imminent and long-term challenges that may significantly hamper the robust growth it has enjo...
Aug 31, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Brazil’s Economic Malaise Rekindled as Olympic Flame Goes Out
Monica de Bolle outlines the tough economic challenges facing Brazilian acting President Michel Temer now that the Olympic games are finished and Dilm...
Aug 31, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Evaluating the IMF’s Performance on Financial-Sector Aspects of the Euro Area Crisis
The Peterson Institute has posted The IMF’s Role in the Euro Area Crisis: Financial Sector Aspects on its website, and a parallel publication has been...
Aug 29, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
B.R. Myers: North Korea’s Juche Myth I
I have never put much weight on ideological explanations of North Korea’s domestic or foreign behavior. To be sure, the regime was communist at birth,...
Aug 03, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Defection, Labor Exports and Border Control
Revised August 2 3PM. An earlier version of this post reported that the UN staff from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights would trave...
Aug 02, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
The Democratic Party Platform: the Asia Dimension
Last week, I looked at the Republican Party platform document, significant not for its substantive effect if Mr. Trump prevails but for the splits it ...
Aug 01, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
The Republican Bankruptcy Illusion
There is now near-unanimity that the United States' Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation, enacted in 2010, did not end the problems associated with...
Jul 31, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Misunderstanding North Korea’s Celebrity Culture
For nearly a year I have been carrying around with me an essay by David Zeglen titled “It’s the Thought That Counts: North Korea’s Glocalization of th...
Jul 29, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail