Think Tank Quickies (#453)
- Think tankers join letter telling the US to arm Ukraine.
- Iranian operatives reportedly spying on members of US "think tank" UANI.
- RAND Corp.'s new CEO Jason Matheny is a "Apocaloptimist."
- Peer review is in trouble.
- CDG: How might think tanks make real things happen? Lessons from the creation of the DFC.
- Max Primorac will lead the Heritage Foundation's Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy.
- Eilish Zembilci is now a consultant policy analyst for the World Food Program USA and staying on with CSIS's global food security program.
- US-based think tank appoints two Nigerian priests as research fellows.
- Nathan Iyer of the Rocky Mountain Institute worked with US lawmakers to help craft a package of supply chain incentives for the massive Inflation Reduction Act.
- The idea of diversified portfolios, a key insight of modern financial theory, was formalized by Harry Markowitz of the RAND Corp. in the early 1950s.
