Word: globalization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...currency explains why gold has not yet made a clear jump above the historic high set a year ago - in U.S. dollars, that is. The dollar has appreciated enormously during the global economic slowdown. All else being equal, this lowers the price of gold for U.S. investors buying with dollars...
...sense that we're moving towards a consensus in America that global warming is real, and that we need to take action? It's complex. I think that the vast majority of the scientific community - and much of the public - believes that it is real. It's a matter of consequence, how we're going to deal with this. There are a lot of complex parts. We haven't arrived at a common intersection of those parts yet, but that's not surprising given the nature of the issue we are dealing with. (See pictures of the world's most...
...recession is dominating our attention right now. But climate change is a problem whose consequences are serious, but always far off. Do you worry that we'll lose focus on global warming? Yes, but I do think there is focus on this. Rahm Emanuel has a great line: "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste." Jeff Immelt at General Electric has another great line, that this isn't a recession, but a reset. It's a reexamination of how we've been living. Maybe the McMansion era is crashing to an end. It doesn't mean that...
...Mixed-commission courts were not post-conflict institutions intended to mete out justice for war crimes. They were, instead, functional components of Britain’s global efforts to suppress the slave trade in peacetime. Countries ratified the courts’ founding treaties because of incentives like money, threat of attack, and involvement. Each nation had a judge and a commissioner of arbitration involved, holding equal power on the court benches. The model was largely successful; the mixed commissions liberated about 80,000 slaves in their 50 years of existence...
...pictures of the global financial crisis...