The CFR Global Imbalances Tracker can be used to gauge, through time, the vulnerability of individual countries and the global economy to the buildup of imbalances in the current account.
Geo-Graphics
Project Expert
Benn Steil
Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics
About the Project
Can hidden Chinese buying of U.S. Treasuries through Belgium explain curious movements in U.S. asset prices? Is the BRICS contingent reserve arrangement a substitute for the International Monetary Fund? What can the price of iPad Minis tell us about currency wars? Emma Smith and I examine these and other geoeconomic questions, with great visuals, in our regular Geo-Graphics blog posts.
Publications
The CFR Sovereign Risk Tracker can be used to gauge the vulnerability of emerging markets to default on external debt.
CFR’s Global Monetary Policy Tracker compiles data from 54 countries around the world to highlight significant global trends in monetary policy. Who is tightening policy? Who is loosening policy? And what is the policy stance of the world as a whole?