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December 10, 2021
Southeast Asia
Malaysia’s New Prime Minister and the Future of Chinese Investment
How will a new prime minister affect Chinese investment in Malaysia?
August 9, 2007
China
The balance of financial terror, circa August 9, 2007
Back in early 2004, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers highlighted the emergence of what he termed the "balance of financial terror." China – and others – relied on the US for demand that t…
February 20, 2009
China
China’s Resource Buys
Note: This post is by Rachel Ziemba of RGE Monitor (where this first appeared) thanks again to Brad for letting me fill in while he’s on vacation. note: I’ve made a slight update to the discussion o…
July 26, 2005
Europe
Mining European data
I spent some time over the weekend delving into the Eurozone balance of payments data published by the ECB in its monthly bulletin, looking for insights into the global flow of funds. But to jazz thi…
September 21, 2006
China
Why China’s $1 trillion in reserves are unlikely to be of much use in a banking crisis
It is rather hard to read Andrew Browne’s report of the building boom in Zhengzhou in last week’s Wall Street Journal --- or for that matter many other accounts of China’s current investment boom – a…
November 15, 2005
Economics
RGE Econoblog with Sebastian Mallaby
OK, not a true Wall Street Journal style Econoblog. But Sebastian Mallaby of the Washington Post noted my response to his October 31st column, and has agreed to allow me to publish our email exchan…
December 15, 2014
Global
Ten Most Significant World Events in 2014
As 2014 comes to a close, here are the top ten most notable world events of the past year.
April 3, 2006
China
Grassley-Baucus-Adams? And (another) long rant about the Economist …
The Treasury doesn't want to declare China to be guilty of manipulation. Picking a fight with one of your biggest creditors isn't smart. Right now, no one is buying more US debt (China buys a lot …
May 7, 2006
United States
Searching for the origins of dark matter
Hausmann and Sturzenegger, if nothing else, have spurred a lot of work with a catchy title and a bit of clever accounting. We now know that:Dark matter stems more from low (reported) returns on forei…
November 30, 2005
Financial Markets
Tracking petrodollars (or petroeuros) — once more
I tend to agree with Stephen Roach more often than naught. But every now and again, I do disagree with him. And I am not convinced that petrodollars, are well, no longer petrodollars. That is, t…