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April 18, 2014

Turkey
Weekend Reading: Turkey’s Intelligence State, Egypt’s Subsidies, and Syria’s European Jihadis

Fehim Tastekin wonders if Turkey is reverting to an intelligence state. Mohamed Gad, writing for Mada Masr, asks if current Egyptian Finance Minister Hany Qadry will actually reform Egypt’s subsidie…

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

January 24, 2011

Renewable Energy
Should We Eliminate All Energy Subsidies?

Writing in the Washington Post a couple weeks ago, Jeffrey Leonard argued that Congress should scrap all energy subsidies – and that clean energy would come out ahead. The op-ed was a shorter version…

Blog Post by Michael Levi Energy, Security, and Climate

December 19, 2006

China
Bernanke: an effective subsidy; Treasury: not manipulation

Bernanke's comment didn't rub me the wrong way (more on that later), but it certainly hit a nerve elsewhere.   I suspect the Treasury -- which wants China to appreciate as much as anyone -- was among…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

December 20, 2010

Iran
Iran is Slashing its Gasoline Subsidies. What Happens Next?

I took the picture in this post somewhere outside of Tehran in early 2006. The number at the bottom is the price of gasoline – at the time, a massively subsidized 800 rials (about 8 cents) per lite…

Iran is Slashing its Gasoline Subsidies. What Happens Next?
Blog Post by Michael Levi Energy, Security, and Climate