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October 27, 2008

Financial Markets
The soaring yen

Back when it was fashionable to talk about the end of macroeconomic volatility, it was also common to note that volatility had disappeared from the currency market. The FT’s resident financial anth…

The soaring yen
Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

October 20, 2012

United States
TWE Remembers: JFK Fakes a Cold (Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Five)

Have you ever faked an illness to get out of a meeting or to avoid an obligation? President John F. Kennedy can do you one better. He faked a cold on Saturday, October 20, the fifth day of the Cuban …

The day book of Evelyn Lincoln, President John F. Kennedy's personal secretary, shows JFK's busy schedule during the Cuban missile crisis. (John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, Massachusetts)
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

September 27, 2006

Financial Markets
Paulson may (or may not) have a strong dollar policy …. New Zealand, though, clearly doesn’t have a strong kiwi policy

It is perhaps a sign of the times that the US is encouraging China to provide the US with a bit less financing (the US of course, has a strong RMB policy, not a weak dollar policy) and New Zealand’s …

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

August 30, 2007

Financial Markets
Turning lemons into lemonade

Or perhaps – with a bit of reverse financial engineering – into “apples, pears, strawberries and all the rest.” Martin Wolf is the latest observer to note that the US has created a lot of financial l…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

April 1, 2016

Elections and Voting
Campaign 2016 Friday Foreign Policy Roundup: Donald Trump’s “America First” Foreign Policy

Donald Trump made foreign policy news a hot topic on the campaign trail this week. In interviews with the Washington Post and the New York Times and in various campaign appearances he suggested that …

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Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge