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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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June 15, 2016
Fossil Fuels
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: A Policy Response to Oil Price Volatility?
This guest post is authored by Jason Bordoff, professor of professional practice and founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Publi…
March 20, 2008
Petrodollars: How to Spend It
Rachel ZiembaNote: This post is by Rachel Ziemba, filling in for Brad Setser Despite the fact that the price of oil and in fact almost all commodities has slid in recent days, they are up substantial…
July 20, 2007
Financial Markets
Oil and the dollar
Oil is once again quite strong. Last summers’ rally was driven in part by a rise the geopolitical risk premium. This summers’ rally seems a product of both strong global growth and relatively re…
October 10, 2017
Energy and Climate Policy
No, Tax Breaks for U.S. Oil and Gas Companies Probably Don’t Materially Affect Climate Change
Last week, the journal Nature Energy published an article from scholars at the Stockholm Environment Institute arguing that the tax breaks given to oil companies by the U.S. government could lead to …
September 6, 2005
Capital Flows
Is Iraq an economic success? (What is Patrick Clawson thinking?)
I think it is fair to say that I see the world - and Iraq's economy -- very differently than Patrick Clawson. Clawson argues in the New Republic that Iraq currently is financing most of its own reco…