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Standards Roadmap for the Smart Grid Unveiled At GridWeek in D.C., Commerce Secretary Gary Locke introduced a 90-page draft on 77 proposed standards for smart grid. Stimuli like this has spurred A123 to have one of the biggest IPOs in greentech, while Silver Spring acquired Greenbox. SolarCity entered the electric …

The Baseline Scenario

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A Short Question For Senior Officials Of The New York Fed Posted: 03 Oct 2009 12:13 PM PDT At the height of the financial panic last fall Goldman Sachs became a bank holding company, which enabled it to borrow directly from the Federal Reserve.  It also became subject to supervision …

The Baseline Scenario: Who is Carlos Slim?

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We understand that Carlos Slim is an investor in The New York Times as well. – Editor Posted: 17 Oct 2009 07:02 AM PDT The US increasingly displays characteristics that we have seen many times in middle-income “emerging markets” – new dimensions of vast inequality, forms of financial instability that …

G20 versus UN: the battle continues

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The future of international economic governance and financial reform is still being debated separately at the United Nations and the G20, but little progress is being made. http://brettonwoodsproject.org/gtwentyun67 Jockeying for position over World Bank’s role as climate talks near