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Oct 15, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Catherine Wolfram
What is the IRA and how will it affect US greenhouse gas emissions? The Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, is one of President Biden’s signature pieces of legislation. It was a big bill, with provisions on health care costs, drug pricing, and tax enforcement. Perhaps most notably, the law included the most significant steps to address climate change that the federal government has ever taken.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Kimberly Clausing |Catherine Wolfram
Trends from the 1990s have made a resurgence in today’s fashion and pop culture. But one unfortunate development from the 1990s stayed with us all along; that of politicians fearing they’ll be “BTUed,” a play on President Bill Clinton’s proposed 1993 “BTU tax,” which was a close cousin to a price on carbon emissions. Democrats in the House voted — some reluctantly — for the tax, which the Senate soundly defeated.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
belfercenter.org | Robert Stavins |Amy Harder |Alvin Powell |Catherine Wolfram
Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students Oil, Sovereign Wealth Funds, and Crises: The Political Economy the Middle East Dr. Ziad Daoud, MEI Senior Fellow and Chief Emerging Markets Economist for Bloomberg, leads a study group examining the political economy of an evolving Middle East. Participants will examine the role that oil has played in shaping the region, and how petrodollars are recycled in the global economy, partly through giant sovereign wealth funds.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
aeaweb.org | Kimberly Clausing |Catherine Wolfram
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
washingtonpost.com | Simon Johnson |Catherine Wolfram
CommentSaveSimon Johnson, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, and Catherine Wolfram, a former deputy assistant secretary for climate and energy economics at the Treasury Department, are professors at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. An unfortunate fact about oil markets is that all petrostates profit from violence — whether they perpetrate it themselves or benefit when other petrostates do.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
kyivindependent.com | Simon Johnson |Catherine Wolfram
By declining to include funding for Ukraine as part of the recent deal to avert a government shutdown, the U.S. Congress sent a signal of encouragement to Russian President Vladimir Putin. That makes tightening the price cap on Russian oil exports all the more important. WASHINGTON, DC/CAMBRIDGE – Wars are won and lost on battlefields. But public finance plays a critical role in determining what the combatants can afford.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
news.yahoo.com | Simon Johnson |Catherine Wolfram
By declining to include funding for Ukraine as part of the recent deal to avert a government shutdown, the U.S. Congress sent a signal of encouragement to Russian President Vladimir Putin. That makes tightening the price cap on Russian oil exports all the more important. WASHINGTON, DC/CAMBRIDGE – Wars are won and lost on battlefields. But public finance plays a critical role in determining what the combatants can afford.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
finance.si | Simon Johnson |Catherine Wolfram
Rusija trenutno služi mastne denarje s prodajo svoje nafte, z njo pa kupuje tanke, plačuje vojake in ohranja vojno daleč od oči ruskih državljanov. Visoke cene nafte, ki jo prodaja, omogočajo Putinu, da preizkuša meje odločnosti zahodnih demokracij. Pravila komentiranja... Pred pisanjem je smiselno prebratipravila foruma. Uredništvo Finance.si bo po svoji presoji sporna sporočila izbrisaloin po potrebi posameznim avtorjem odvzelo možnost pisanja.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
jurnalul.ro | Simon Johnson |Catherine Wolfram
Refuzând să includă fonduri pentru Ucraina ca parte a acordului recent pentru a evita blocarea guvernului, Congresul SUA a transmis de fapt un semnal de încurajare președintelui rus Vladimir Putin. Între timp, creșterea din iulie încoace a prețurilor globale la petrol (acum peste 90 de dolari pe baril) oferă noi venituri pentru efortul de război al Rusiei și un nou impuls psihologic pentru Kremlin.
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Oct 6, 2023 | 
zawya.com | Simon Johnson |Catherine Wolfram
WASHINGTON, DC/CAMBRIDGE – Wars are won and lost on battlefields. But public finance plays a critical role in determining what the combatants can afford. This is particularly true for a long war, which is what Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has already become. By declining to include funding for Ukraine as part of the recent deal to avert a government shutdown, the US Congress sent a signal of encouragement to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
