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 What’s in a name? That which we call a rollout of shovel-ready clean tech infrastructure projects by any other name would still decarbonize the economy. A “Green New Deal” is not going to pass Congress anytime soon. Yet despite this, Biden is poised to bring on an unprecedented clean tech policy revolution that would farContinue reading “Green New Deal by Stealth”

Ethiopia’s long-benighted opposition dares to dream of a democratic Ethiopia. These days, optimists rarely get the opportunity to say “I told you so.”  Yet the zeal with which Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s 41-year-old Prime Minister has attacked his country’s political and economic crises caught many by surprise. Almost overnight, he became the most popular politician in a country of 100 million in the strategically vital HornContinue reading “Hope in the Horn of Africa”

China’s economic rise has been great for Australia. The resource-rich nation has gladly fed China’s hunger for cheap energy and industrial materials. Since China’s accession to the WTO in 2001, Australian household incomes nearly tripled while the population of the country surged.  Yet all is not well in the land of Oz. Since 2016 Australia,Continue reading “The Kangaroo and the Dragon: The Asia-Pacific Energy Market’s New Animal Spirits”

How train-happy Azerbaijan could upend global transport The grand opening on October 30, 2017 of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway was almost a typical celebration of the completion of a Belt and Road project. Azerbaijan’s authoritarian president Ilham Aliyev, standing beside President Erdogan of Turkey, called it “a restoration of a part of the historic SilkContinue reading “The Great Train Wars”

Millenials are notoriously skeptical of capitalism. In one Harvard survey, 51% of 18-29 year-olds said they were opposed to capitalism versus just 42% who supported it. Yet by and large we are not taking our avocado toast and moving to Sweden. Instead, skepticism of capitalism and its harbingers has nudged banks and asset managers toContinue reading “Cuddly Capitalism: Myths and Lies About Impact Investing”

On September 20th, the people of Nambia were thrilled to hear the president of the United States, Donald Tump, recognize our nation for the inroads we have made against the scourge of infectious diseases. While I am pleasantly surprised President Tump demonstrated awareness of the affairs of smaller states like our own, as President ofContinue reading “President of Nambia Responds to Trump”