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    More Than Green: Leveraging Green Bonds to Invest in Greater Climate Resilience

    Karishma V. Patel, Michelle E. Miro

    Nov 24, 2021

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    The significance of green bonds may depend not only on having a lot of them but also on carefully developing, investing, and tracking projects against the larger goal of climate resilience.

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    The Growing Green Bond Market Could Plateau. How Can It Grow Further?

    David Catt, Nihar Chhatiawala, Mark Stalczynski

    Nov 23, 2021

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    If green bonds are a viable tool to reduce emissions and adapt infrastructure to the effects of climate change, how can governments encourage the issuance, sales, and growth in the share of green bonds in the total bond market?

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    Green Bonds Can Leave Issuers in the Red

    Brian Wong, Ismael Arciniegas Rueda

    Nov 22, 2021

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    To achieve the Biden administration's blueprint for solar energy and focus on climate change mitigation and adaptation, green bonds may be worth considering. But, like any other financing instrument, they may be best considered through a cost-benefit lens.

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    Protecting the Elderly from Financial Exploitation

    Katherine Grace Carman @KGCarman, Sierra Smucker

    Oct 14, 2021

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    Older adults are more vulnerable to scams and more likely to have money and assets than their younger counterparts of the same race/ethnicity. Policy solutions that provide protection against financial fraud could help older adults to live more financially stable lives.

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    Renters' Last Chance for Pandemic Aid Before Evictions Resume

    George Zuo

    Sep 24, 2021

    Los Angeles Times

    The pandemic has battered Los Angeles renters, and a new wave of pain is coming with the moratorium on evictions ending September 30. But this housing crisis doesn't have to turn into a new homelessness crisis. Californians with incomes below 80 percent of their area's median are eligible to receive funds from the COVID-19 Rent Relief program.

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    Aug 2, 2021

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    Several strategies could help protect consumers from subscription traps. Strategies could include providing better information showing that a free trial is followed by a subscription, reminding consumers that they have a subscription, and allowing consumers to easily cancel.

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    Cryptocurrency Should Be Added to the U.S.-Japan Trade Deal

    Sale Lilly @SaleLilly, Scott W. Harold

    Jul 28, 2021

    Nikkei Asia

    As the Biden administration begins to define its approach to international trade, and the Suga administration looks to further tighten cooperation with the United States, it may be worth reconsidering the exclusion of cryptocurrency from the U.S.-Japan trade deal. Substantial economic equities are at stake for both sides.

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    Sam Alom, Sonja Marjanovic @SonjaCambs

    Jul 26, 2021

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    Given the growing pressures on health care systems globally and the need for innovative approaches to financing health care, the time may be ripe to develop a robust evidence base and share learning on fintech-enabled approaches that could support universal health coverage agendas and healthier and more stable societies.

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    Marcus Dillistone, Ryan Andrew Brown, Alina I. Palimaru, Michael Schwille @MichaelSchwille

    Dec 16, 2020

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    If you've ever rented a property, you may have wondered what happens to the sensitive information on your application. Recent concerns over the foreign harvesting of personal information for questionable purposes should worry everyone.

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    Too Interconnected to Fail

    Jonathan W. Welburn @jwwelburn, Aaron Strong @resourceecon

    Aug 22, 2020

    Wall Street Journal

    The 2007–08 financial crisis made regulators and lawmakers acutely aware that some financial institutions had become too big to fail. The next big economic crisis may arise outside the financial sector, in highly networked companies that are too interconnected to fail.

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    What to Watch to Understand the Sino-Iranian Relationship

    Colin P. Clarke, Mollie Saltskog

    Aug 13, 2020

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    Beijing and Tehran are in the process of finalizing an ambitious partnership covering a range of security and economic issues. The United States should not overreact to shifting geopolitical dynamics in the Middle East, and should instead keep an eye out to assess the evolution of the relationship and take stock of what is delivered instead of what is merely promised.

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    A Tale of Two Americas

    Krishna B. Kumar @kbkumar_

    Jul 9, 2020

    RealClearPolicy

    Economic pain in the United States is obvious and palpable everywhere except in the stock market. This spotlights inequality that has been increasing for decades. Undoing disparities will require firm policy commitment over many years.

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    From Lockdown to Locked Out: Coronavirus and the Looming Crisis in Rental Housing

    Alina I. Palimaru, Jason M. Ward @jason_m_ward, Amy L. Shearer, Marcus Dillistone

    Apr 30, 2020

    Dallas Morning News

    Housing security is vital to individual and collective well-being. It's also a key component in the nation's economic performance. The looming coronavirus eviction crisis suggests the need to address the systemic problem of housing affordability and security now.

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    The Second Wave of COVID Consequences

    Kathryn A. Edwards @keds_economist, Jeffrey B. Wenger

    Apr 24, 2020

    The RAND Blog

    Economists closely watch measures of consumer confidence because they are highly predictive economic indicators. New consumer data reveals likely long-term and prolonged economic fallout.

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  • The very fact that Russia felt the need to resort to overt, large-scale conventional force in Ukraine—despite years of operating there in the gray zone—demonstrates that at least in Russian President Vladimir Putin's mind, these ambiguous uses of force in Ukraine failed to achieve their desired ends.

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