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The Year's Best
Top Hits of TAI in 2015

Make it a New Year’s resolution to catch up with the magazine’s must-read essays of 2015.

Puerto Rico Blues
Puerto Rico’s Rolling Catastrophe

Puerto Rico bondholders are in for an unpleasant start to 2016 as the island announces that it will default on some of its debt payments due on New Years Day.

Venezuela on the Brink
Venezuela’s Supreme Court Rules Against Opposition

Maduro’s electoral defeat is both good and bad, as the stage may be set for a messy 2016.

Petrostates in Peril
Russia Caps 2015 With Record-Setting Oil Production

For now, Moscow has little choice but to ramp up production to try to offset bargain prices by selling more.

Testing Testing
White House to Introduce New Iran Sanctions

The decision comes in response to blatant violations of U.N. ban on ballistic missile testing.

Fear the Airpocalypse
Toxic Smog Keeps Chinese Children Indoors

This week, Beijing warned children and the elderly to stay away from deadly smog and not to venture outside.

The Refugee Crisis
Renzi: EU Not Living Up to Refugee Redistribution Promises

Italian PM alleges that only about 0.2% of refugee redistributions been implemented.

Crude Economics
Saudis Promise to Keep the Oil Coming

Riyadh is cutting its budget and promising to keep the crude flowing in 2016. Cheap oil looks like it’s here to stay.

Out of Afghanistan?
Al Qaeda Resurgent in Afghanistan

Officials seemingly don’t know how many training camps Al Qaeda is operating in Afghanistan.

overregulated
A New Year’s Present for California Trial Lawyers

California’s state government is moving, based on dubious feminist statistics, to enact another impossibly broad, costly regulation on the state’s employers.

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