Many have speculated on the nature of, and the reasons for, the exchange rate regime change in China last week. While the central bank has issued press statements and answered questions about it intentions, it is useful to look at the data.
Bailout deal brings wave of tax hikes - Ekathimerini.com. A barrage of new tax measures are contained in the new bill presented to Greece’s Parliament.
Monday, August 17, 2015 to Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Hoover Institution, Stanford University
The second annual Congressional Cyber Boot Camp will be held at Stanford University August 17-19. A bipartisan group of thirty senior Senate and House staffers will participate in the three-day workshop hosted by the Hoover Institution, Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
A nice essay by Brink Lindsey at Cato, analyzing some regulations that are strangling economic growth, with an explicitly bipartisan (multipartisan) appeal.
A string of legal defeats in international courts could have a dramatic impact on the fortunes of Russian President Vladimir Putin. As the adverse rulings pile up, they are starting to pose a threat to Russia’s international standing, its financial health, and Putin himself.
I had promised to post more about the first book I read on my vacation. But in the tradeoff between swimming and posting, I leaned strongly to the former. Now I'm catching up.
I have spent the last few days in Jerusalem, meeting with Israelis and Palestinians, mostly the latter. I will have more to say in the coming days about some of these meetings, which have been organized by Academic Exchange—one of Lawfare's partners in the Omphalos project—and the Yitzhak Rabin Center.
Many people whom I respect have highly recommended the blog slatestarcodex by "Scott Alexander." The quotation marks are there because the name is a pseudonym.
Note: I returned late Thursday from my 2.5-week vacation at my cottage in Canada. Thus the relative sparseness of my posts and especially of my answers to commenters. In an otherwise excellent post, which I highly recommend, Kevin D. Williamson of National Review writes the following: Social Security made sense in the context of 1935 demographics.
Hoover Institution fellow Michael McFaul gives his insights on why U.S. relations with Russia have taken a turn for the worse and what to expect in the future.
Rachel Laudan, visiting scholar at the University of Texas and author of Cuisine and Empire, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the history of food.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were a universal pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty and hunger.
When lawmakers return from summer break on Monday, they'll have less than a month to solve two huge problems that have vexed the Legislature for decades -- fixing California's crumbling roads and funding health care for the poor.
The day John Kasich announced his 2016 run for the White House, Fox News' Sean Hannity made light of the Ohio governor's national security credentials when the newly minted candidate went on Hannity's television show to list the resume details that qualify him to serve as president.
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