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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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October 15, 2019
Taiwan
What Does Taiwan’s Hidden Forward Book Mean for Taiwan’s Financial Stability and U.S. Currency Policy?
Taiwan's central bank—and Taiwanese households—have taken on an awful lot of foreign currency risk over the years …
March 6, 2017
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Puerto Rico’s Daunting Fiscal Math (My View)
An applied economics question: A country with no independent monetary policy, undergoing a ten-year slump that has reduced its real GDP on average by over a percentage point a year, needs to do a …
November 26, 2006
Monetary Policy
Does China’s (de facto) dollar peg limit China’s capacity to diversify its reserves?
The dollar hasn’t recovered from the Thanksgiving sell-off. At least not in Asia. The won is not as strong as it has been since Korea's own crisis back in 1997. Those with dollar exposure – par…
July 30, 2008
Monetary Policy
Just how stabilizing?
Russia’s central bank has indicated that it has cut its holdings of Fannie and Freddie debt by about half since the beginning of the year. Russia’s central bank claims its $100 billion portfolio …
December 3, 2008
China
Should the currency of the country with a large and growing trade surplus and large and growing reserves depreciate against the dollar?
On Monday China apparently decided to allow the renminbi to depreciate against the dollar. Let’s be clear: China generally still has to intervene in the market to keep its currency from appreciat…
