James Shinn

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Blogroll

• Century Afghan Task Force
• CQS
• Global Strategic Associates
• Institutional Investor Magazine
• Keller Center for Innovation in Education
• MoDo Labs: Making Mobile Awesome
• Oxford Analytica
• Princeton University "Radical Innovation" (EGR492)
• Teneo
• The Minervan Dialogues

Recent Posts

• Why Pakistan Matters for Global Markets, Institutional Investor (February 2013)
• Trading Political Bets
• Zeckhauser: Investing in the Unknown and the Unknowable
• Skyfull of Lies and Black Swans
• The Limits of U.S. Leverage in Pakistan
• Dave Barry’s 2010 in Retrospect
• Understanding America’s Contested Primacy
• Ritalin and Changing the Educational Paradigm
• Rudi Bogni on “Data and Illusions”

Oxford Analytica Headlines for Today

• CHINA: Local borrowing will stress stability
  Maintaining debt sustainability in the face of ballooning local government borrowing. […]
• CENTRAL EUROPE: Fiscal positions allow some loosening
  Short-term macroeconomic policies should support an economy in prolonged recession and not create additional drag, the IMF advised the Czech government on May 20. […]
• LATIN AMERICA: New bloc aims for 'open regionalism'
  The presidents of the Pacific Alliance -- Latin America's latest integration project, drawing together Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru -- will begin a summit in Cali today. […]
• INTERNATIONAL: RMB could challenge the dollar in time
  Official holdings of renminbi by the world's central banks. […]
• AFRICA: Military aid carries political risks
  The impact of donor spending on African militaries. […]
• IRAQ: Baghdad 'truce' with Kurds should hold into 2014
  Turkey said yesterday that it intends to seal commercial deals for oil and gas exploration in northern Iraq this year. […]
• KENYA: Optimism is premature for hydrocarbons
  Kenya's nascent hydrocarbon industry. […]
• GERMANY: Calmer crisis would lessen new party's appeal
  The new anti-euro party Alternative for Germany (AfD). […]