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

• JAPAN: Economy rebounds but reforms must keep momentum
  Japan's first-quarter (January-March) 2013 economic data were released yesterday. […]
• UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Dubai can sustain modest growth
  Dubai's benchmark stock index rose to its highest level since October 2009 on May 14, amid rising investor confidence over the outlook for debt restructuring and the property market. […]
• MEXICO: Local vote will test the PRI and opposition
  Fourteen Mexican states will hold elections for municipal governments and/or state legislators on July 7. […]
• INTERNATIONAL: Coal markets face policy crossroads
  Last week carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere measured by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii reached 400 parts per million for the first time. This has sparked renewed concerns over the role of fossil fuels -- especially highly pollutant and widely used coal -- in climate change. […]
• UGANDA: Government counts on infrastructure-led growth
  Uganda's growth strategy. […]
• RUSSIA: Investment shift will politicise wealth fund
  Risks embedded in the changing strategy of Russia's National Wealth Fund. […]
• LIBYA: Political Isolation Law to have limited impact
  The significance and implications of the Political Isolation Law. […]
• POLAND: Troubled Tusk may yet cling on until 2015
  Outlook for the Tusk government. […]