ND in the News: July 2022

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  1. Can Deutschland AG cope with the Russian gas shock?

    In typical corporatist fashion, Germany’s big parties, industry bigwigs and trade unions collectively decided that cheap Russian gas was great industrial policy, too, notes Rüdiger Bachmann of the University of Notre Dame.

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    Ruediger Bachmann

    Economics

  2. The U.S. tries to build support for a price cap on Russian oil

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    So far, however, the West has not succeeded in choking off financing for Russia’s war on Ukraine, said Christiane Baumeister of the University of Notre Dame.

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    Christiane Baumeister. Photo by Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame.

    Christiane Baumeister

    Department of Economics

  3. US, allies aim to cap Russian oil prices to hinder invasion

    In that case, “the main question is will countries have enough time to find alternatives” to prevent massive price increases, said Christiane Baumeister, an economist at the University of Notre Dame who studies the dynamics of energy markets.

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    Christiane Baumeister. Photo by Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame.

    Christiane Baumeister

    Department of Economics

  4. This climate techno-fix is back in vogue

    That could prolong fossil fuel dependence while increasing costs, which are ultimately paid by consumers, according to Emily Grubert, an energy policy professor at the University of Notre Dame who recently finished a stint in the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management.

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    Emily Grubert

    Keough School of Global Affairs, College of Engineering

  5. Catholic journalists urged to face media, church distrust head-on

    Put another way: “Journalists and communicators have a role to play here, to let the eucharistic mystery of the church manifest itself for the life of the world,” said Timothy O’Malley, director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.

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    Timothy O'Malley

    McGrath Institute for Church Life

  6. Do findings of two new polls show the path where America is headed?

    David Campbell, a political science professor at the University of Notre Dame, had a distinctly different take on the question. Campbell is co-author of both “American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us” and “Secular Surge: A New Fault Line in American Politics.”

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    David Campbell

    Political Science