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I wrote last Friday about the China/India hole in the American climate strategy:
America appears to lack a high-probability strategy for how to get China, India, and Russia to agree to self-impose a significant positive carbon price.
The Administration and its Congressional allies are trying to impose a significant carbon price in the U.S. through something like [...]

Heidi Collins of CNN interviewed former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich and me this morning around 10:30 AM on CNN Newsroom.
To my surprise, Secretary Reich and I agreed on a lot.  We both came out strong against protectionism, and complimented the G-20 leaders for making a strong statement about this.  We’ll see if the leaders [...]

The President has arrived in London for the G-20 economic summit.  I have different policy views than the President on some of these issues, but I will not criticize him while he is overseas.  I will attempt to gently highlight a couple of substantive issues that concern me, but at the same time I want [...]

Here is the “Leaders Declaration” for the Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy (aka the G-20 Summit) hosted by President Bush last Friday and Saturday in Washington, DC.
This is the second of a two-part note.  Here’s the first part.
A fair amount of the press coverage followed a ready-made storyline:  “Lame duck President … [...]

President Bush spoke at the Manhattan Institute today on financial markets and the world economy.
This speech is a prelude to the financial summit the President will host this weekend.  I’ll write separately about the Summit, and about the elements of today’s speech that talk about principles for reform.
I want to draw your attention to two [...]