Tag: nature

January 18, 2015 0

Swiss Peg Removal: Did Anyone Win?

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For details, please see It Only Takes One: Hedge Fund Manager Who Survived Five Debt Crises Wiped Out Overnight on Swiss Franc Repercussions This Swiss Franc peg story goes far beyond speculation on the Swiss franc.

November 1, 2014 0

Ukraine’s Elections: Stabilization Through Eradication

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Links Ukraine’s Elections: Stabilization Through Eradication November 1, 2014 ( Ulson Gunnar – NEO ) – Curiously, Didier Burkhalter, Swiss Foreign Minister and Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Chairperson-in-Office,  congratulated Ukrainians for their elections  of the parliamentary assembly and hailed them as another important step toward "stabilization." It is a curious statement considering the nature of the elections themselves, carried out under the duress of deadly internal conflict, with multiple regions of the country not even participating in the elections and the intimidation and barring of opposition parties from participating in campaigning and polling. Despite claims of Ukraine’s elections leading to "stabilization," instead it appears they are leading to the rise in prominence of ultra-right Neo-Nazi parties like Svoboda whose supporters are pictured above.

June 10, 2014 0

Bleg: foreigners, especially Indians or Chinese, arguing their countries should do nothing on climate because of American emissions

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Tweet Bit of an experiment. I’m interested in internal climate policy debates in other countries where someone prominent takes the same position the Republican leadership is taking today, that we should do nothing because foreign bogeyman is worse, except that the bogeyman is the US. It’s Indians and Chinese that the Republicans usually identify as the bogeymen, so they’d be the ideal examples

June 4, 2014 0

In the Spirit of Deep Climate

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Tweet In the spirit of Deep Climate , Anonymous, as he wrote to Eli , has penned an analysis of how Richard Tol cooked and indeed, it is McIntyre class, although from the nature of the mistake, it may very well have been hubris and not malice.  Dickie’s misbegotten analysis starts from Cook et al’s description of their procedure, and just to show that Eli is an honest card shark, why not start with Tol’s description first of what he did, and then of what Cook et al did.  At the end of this it should become clear that, well, Eli will leave that to the bunnies.  From Tol’s blog According to Cook et al. , each abstract was assessed by at least 2 and at most 3 raters

May 6, 2014 0

Tol’s Demon

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