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Bolt to the Future | Todd N. Tucker : Under Two Ceilings
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Todd N. Tucker : Under Two Ceilings. August 3, 2015 · 10:15 am. Bolt to the Future. I don’t often agree with John Bolton, but he is asking. Some of the right questions on the Iran deal. W’s ambassador to the UN has a column in today’s NYT. In it, he shakes his bellicose fist at the Obama administration’s most significant diplomatic accomplishment. He chastises them for not credibly keeping the option of war on the table, as he has in past columns where he urged bombing of Iran. Expressly provide, in near...
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About | Todd N. Tucker : Under Two Ceilings
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Todd N. Tucker : Under Two Ceilings. This blog is written by Todd Tucker, a writer and researcher on global governance issues. My CV is here. I’m a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. And was a Gates Scholar. At the University of Cambridge. S Centre of Development Studies. Prior to this, I spent a decade as a researcher and advisor on service trade and investment policy to governments, media outlets, foundations and civil society organizations at Public Citizen. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Notify me of ne...
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Clusterfakis | Todd N. Tucker : Under Two Ceilings
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Todd N. Tucker : Under Two Ceilings. Bolt to the Future →. July 30, 2015 · 11:13 am. Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s radical ex-finance minister, was the subject of an excellent New Yorker profile. Particularly fascinating are the details on ways economists, lawyers and politicians varied in their approach to the Greek crisis. Varoufakis recalled that Schäuble seemed very cross, and said, When there’s a program that everybody has. In the opinion of one troika official, Varoufakis’s disregard for the granular ...
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States’ Rights, Courtesy of Feds | Todd N. Tucker : Under Two Ceilings
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Todd N. Tucker : Under Two Ceilings. Inequality Expands Role of Courts →. August 12, 2015 · 12:33 pm. States’ Rights, Courtesy of Feds. Historian Eric Foner takes on the states rights Civil War narrative:. When it came to vigorous federal action in defense of slavery, the South was perfectly happy to go that route. Defenders of free markets similarly obscure. The substantial state intervention required to maintain them. For more from Foner, check out the full interview in this summer’s Jacobin. China in ...
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#DefaultNotDefault | Todd N. Tucker : Under Two Ceilings
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Todd N. Tucker : Under Two Ceilings. Bolt to the Future. Integrate U →. August 4, 2015 · 10:59 am. Puerto Rico missed a payment on its bonds yesterday. In other words, a “default”, right? Maybe not, as Mary Williams Walsh reports. 8230;the bonds that defaulted on Monday were sold with a guarantee, in the form of an irrevocable letter of credit. Issued by the Government Development Bank. Officials in Puerto Rico have said that the bonds were backed by yearly budget appropriations, and that if an appropria...
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Inequality Expands Role of Courts | Todd N. Tucker : Under Two Ceilings
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Todd N. Tucker : Under Two Ceilings. States’ Rights, Courtesy of Feds. Sabaya Law →. August 14, 2015 · 10:15 am. Inequality Expands Role of Courts. Washington State schools face a funding crisis, as Kirk Johnson reports. Of $100,000 a day on the state until a plan to reduce the gap was accepted, and in a written order encouraged Gov. Jay Inslee to call the Legislature into a special session. Court orders regarding education financing are not new. Kansas is in the midst of one such standoff. High ...I’m n...
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Integrate U | Todd N. Tucker : Under Two Ceilings
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Todd N. Tucker : Under Two Ceilings. August 7, 2015 · 11:03 am. Australia is considering softening its opposition to investor-state dispute settlement (#ISDS) in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), according to Primrose Riordan of the Financial Review. This topic is one of the sticking points. In the stalled negotiations, alongside more traditional trade concerns like dairy market access. 8211; already have preexisting trade and investment deals of their own. On investor-state agreements.*. The “a...
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GrieFault Backfire? | Todd N. Tucker : Under Two Ceilings
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Todd N. Tucker : Under Two Ceilings. Court ok’s Argentine fishing expedition. What is at Fault in #GrieFault? July 31, 2014 · 10:59 am. Could the US face WTO sanctions for the recent Argentina bonds debacle? A quick recap of where we are. US Judge Griesa recently ruled that Argentina cannot pay off. This prompted Standard and Poors to declare Argentina in technical default. Financial reporter Felix Salmon is referring to the mess using the hashtag #GrieFault. That – if US prosecutors or courts move...
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Creeping multilateralism | Todd N. Tucker : Under Two Ceilings
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Todd N. Tucker : Under Two Ceilings. Fast Track Changes the Conversation, Not the Law →. April 30, 2015 · 10:17 am. The debate over Fast Track is heating up, and President Obama is getting more riled up by the details of the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism, or ISDS, than I’ve ever seen a sitting president get. On a recent conference call with reporters discussed by Greg Sargent,. That is equally bounteous. Notably, most of these treaties – UNCTAD estimates nearly 80 percent. Pause for a momen...
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