Your humble blogger is near the capital of Waterworld Pennsylvania at the moment and all conferenced out. Regular blogging will resume after some sleep.

In the meanwhile, however, please check out FP’s latest Deep Dive on the future of currencies. I have a contribution on the dollar’s future as the world’s reserve currency. It’s depressing to note that the thing I like best about it is it’s title — which, of course, someone else at FP created.

Enjoy!

Source: http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/09/08/deep_dives_on_currency

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By closing or nationalizing dozens of the producers of rare earth metals, which are used in energy-efficient bulbs, China is crimping the global supply.

Source: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=3e9a39206cde69d33e08938e3b340159

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Apparently the good old lemonade stand has been made illegal! In fact worse than just getting shut down kids and their families are actually receiving fines if they are caught.

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Source: http://EzineArticles.com/6542515

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A tribe made famous in the “Twilight” movie series takes its real-life problems to Congress.

Source: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/real-world-quileutes-lobby-for-their-land/

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Jurors on Thursday heard differing stories Thursday about the final moments of a 55-year-old Florida woman, with prosecutors claiming her millionaire husband callously shot her while his lawyers characterized her death as a “tragic” accident.

Source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/LhHvCIRMgiw/index.html

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Mortgage rates hit yet another record low this week amid ongoing economic concerns both at home and in Europe.

Source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~3/MBJOq22o3OE/index.htm

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We sift through the glut of 10th-anniversary coverage, so
you don’t have to.

Source: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/09/09/the_911_anniversary_reader_fail_edition

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has touted his efforts to impose a 3 percent cut in the U.N.’s budget as a sign of the U.N.’s commitment to fiscal austerity.

Then the raises came. On Aug. 1, the U.N.’s International Civil Service Commission — a body of independent experts appointed by governments — granted a 3 percent salary increase, or cost-of-living adjustment, to more than 4,800 U.N. staff who work in New York City.

The United States, which had praised Ban’s earlier cost-cutting initiative, protested the decision, noting that that American federal civil servants have been denied cost-of-living adjustments — called "locality pay" — since 2010.

"My government is deeply concerned by the decision ? to increase the post adjustment index in New York and strongly objects to this increase," wrote Joseph Torsella, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations for management and reform, in a letter to the United Nations. "Such a raise is inappropriate at this time of global fiscal austerity measures such as layoffs, service reductions, revenue increases, and reductions in pay and benefits for civil servants."

The letter comes as the U.N. has been announcing layoffs of U.N. workers, including a group of broadcast engineers, who were let go earlier this month. It comes several days after a reporter from Fox News posted a story about the salary increase.

The secretary-general’s office offered a clarification. "It was a decision by the International Civil Service Commission, whose members are elected by the member states, not a decision by the SG," said Vannina Maestracci, a spokeswoman for Ban.

"While we have the highest regard for the many dedicated professionals in the UN system, in these difficult times we must — at a minimum — forgo salary increases," Torsella wrote. "Failure to do so could well lead to more draconian approaches to budget-balancing in the future."

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Source: http://turtlebay.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/08/29/do_un_bureaucrats_deserve_a_raise_0

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