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How I wrote and published a book about the economics of coronavirus in a month
I just published a book, Economics in the Age of COVID-19. It was written over the last month or so, peer-reviewed, edited and released by MIT…
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Defense spending post-coronavirus: How to walk and chew gum at the same time
After toiling for a decade in Washington foreign and defense policy circles, I can confidently say that received strategic wisdom almost always is wrong. Policymakers, so…
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What balancing act is needed for FY2021 budget?
The budget for fiscal year (FY) 2021 is going to be presented in the backdrop of a situation which was previously not experienced in the history…
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China faces an unemployment time bomb
Premier Li Keqiang will need to act quickly to prop up 600 million low-paid workers hit by Covid-19 fallout Gordon Watts Strip away the veneer of…
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How to Stop the Next Pandemic
Wildlife and livestock are a major cause of pandemic viruses. A few simple steps could stop the next one. Sen. Chris Coons, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Carter…
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America Is a Tinderbox: Scenes from a country in free fall.
The last two and a half months in America have felt like the opening montage in a dystopian film about a nation come undone. First the…
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Circling the Square: What is the golden ratio for Budget 21?
As announcement of the national budget for the fiscal year 2020-21 (FY21) draws close, my transcendental thought process goes haywire trying to figure out how this…
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COVID-19: challenges, Dilemmasand Initiatives
Sun star may or may not be so worried when its Earth planet is upset and convulsed at the guerrilla attacks and blazes of an invisible…
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India, China teeter toward a border clash
Both sides have sent reinforcements to disputed Ladakh line, as Beijing flexes its muscles around Asia Pepe Escobar It would be counter-productive for BRICS and Shanghai…
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COVID-19 accelerates Bolsonaro’s project against the Amazon and indigenous people
In Brazil, those who are dying in the greatest numbers are those who have been treated as objects since the 2018 presidential campaign: those of African…
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AFA8: CAN WE TRUST AMERICA? MESSAGE TO WASHINGTON How to maximise US strength in Asia
Canberra today has one major foreign policy dilemma that outranks all others: how should Australia position itself between a more powerful China and an increasingly unpredictable…
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Putin and the ‘Distinct Russian Civilization’
How the Kremlin tries to explain the coronavirus crisis to its people. Ilya Klishin In the closing days of May 2020, at the peak of the…