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Thanks for coming to visit my website. I am a Bernard Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation, where I'm working on innovation policy. I'm also interested in other things, some of which I talk about on this website, where my opinions are my own and nobody else's.
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The Last Days of Bank Secrecy?
1 September 2009
An article I wrote for Poder, a magazine about business in Latin America, that describes the crumbling of bank secrecy and what it means for the region.
The Caribbean
tags: Banking, Poder, Switzerland, Wealth
Shelter from the Storm
15 May 2009
An article for Poder, a Latin American business magazine, about the impact of the economic crisis on the Caribbean.
Rebuilding Haiti
12 February 2009
Weighed down by disasters
A modest success for the United Nations is threatened by nature and lassitude
The Caribbean
tags: Gonaives, Haiti, hurricanes, United Nations
Haiti
12 February 2009
The island and the outside world
Being in Haiti without being in Haiti
The Caribbean
tags: Gonaives, Haiti, Labadee, United Nations
Remittances to Mexico
11 December 2008
The end of the American dream
The recession up north bites in rural Mexico
The last days of the scribe
20 November 2008
The scribes’ lament
A dying profession in the heart of the city
Nicaragua–midterm elections
13 November 2008
How to steal an election
Daniel Ortega sets an ugly precedent
Honduras and Venezuela
30 October 2008
Zelaya plays the Chávez card
Why Honduras wanted 4m light bulbs
Central America
tags: The Economist
Mexico’s war with the cartels
30 October 2008
Spot the drug trafficker
The arrest of senior officials shows the government’s resolve in fighting drug traffickers-and that the rot in law enforcement reaches the top
Locked in the grid: how we fail each other
1 October 2008
An essay about how the breakdown of civil society in Mexico leads to inefficiency.
Mexico’s lame duck president
4 September 2008
Oh rose, thou art sick
The president faces a long goodbye
The Caribbean and the Olympics
28 August 2008
Champs and chumps
Why Jamaica outpointed Cuba
The Caribbean
tags: The Economist
Nicaragua
14 August 2008
Tearing up the rules
Daniel Ortega bans his foes
Central America
tags: The Economist
Refrigerator factory diary
8 August 2008
Birth of the cool
Notes from The Little Tramp’s stamping ground
Energy reform in Mexico
24 July 2008
Crude and oily
A controversial referendum and the future of the state oil company
Telecoms in Mexico
10 July 2008
Slim’s pickings
More competition should help to drive down exorbitant phone charges
Cuba and the European Union
26 June 2008
Anyone for cocktails?
Outsiders bet that bigger changes are on their way (with Michael Reid in London)
The Caribbean
tags: The Economist