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want to solve climate change? first fix muni bonds (heatmap)
(This essay was published on April 19, 2024, in Heatmap, which is seriously the best place to get mostly US-focused climate policy news and analysis. All the cool kids are reading it. I can’t...
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one development card, please!
image: a development card! *** April 3, 2024 I was playing Settlers of Catan a few weeks ago with my housemates and, man, I was losing. My early-game strategy of building cities had burnt itself out...
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mobilizing private capital ― the slideshow!
image: crop of Figure 3 from the OECD’s 2018 “State of Blended Finance” report. *** March 25, 2024 “Mobilizing private capital.” What’s up with those three words? Over the past two months, I have been...
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the price is wrong―and so is the policy! (book review)
image: bottom half of the cover jacket of Brett Christophers’ The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet (Verso, 2024). *** March 6, 2024 When I was a research analyst at the U.S....
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the doom loop ― appendix
November 27, 2023 To write my recent Phenomenal World piece on the climate risk doom loop, I had to do a fair amount of background research into how others conceptualized the concept. I thought a lot...
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the doom loop (phenomenal world)
(This essay was published on November 22, 2023 in Phenomenal World, a critical economics and social science research blog. All the cool kids are reading Phenomenal World, and you should too. I...
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a world safe for spending
image: design from the IMF’s October 2023 Fiscal Monitor. *** October 6, 2023 Earlier this week, I scrolled past an IMF blogpost on balancing climate investments with debt sustainability. I feel like...
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the investment climate (phenomenal world)
(This essay was published on August 26, 2023 in Phenomenal World, a critical economics and social science research blog, as part of its Polycrisis project, an effort to map out the economic and...
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grading the credit rating agencies
image: Fitch’s stylized outline of its Sovereign Rating Criteria. *** August 2, 2023 Yesterday, the credit rating agency Fitch chose to downgrade the United States, mostly on the basis that the US...
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a public option for public finance
image: crop from a National Investment Authority whitepaper. *** May 31, 2023 Most public investment is privately financed: a government raises money from investors today on the bond market to spend...
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infrastructure finance in 40 charts
image: design from the IMF’s April Global Financial Stability Report. *** April 20, 2023 The infrastructure finance landscape is complex, but it’s thanks to the chartmaking savants at Bloomberg, the...
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how hurdle rates trip up the green transition
image: design for the appendix page of the Global Infrastructure Hub’s 2022 Infrastructure Monitor. *** March 23, 2023 For us Government People working in infrastructure finance, the commonly...
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securitizing the transition (phenomenal world)
(This essay was published on February 15, 2023 in Phenomenal World, a critical economics and social science research blog, as part of its Polycrisis project, an effort to map out the economic and...
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buy-side climate finance
image: design for the cover of the Songwe/Stern International High Level Expert Group on Climate Finance, published in November 2022. disclaimer: the views expressed in this blog are the author’s...
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