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January 16, 2007

Monetary Policy
I have a bit more competition, at least when it comes to reserve tracking

Morgan Stanley has launched a new global reserves monitor.    Their weekly has a bit more detail than in the online version.    I can hardly complain though.  I have a bit more detail hidden behind t…

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Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

March 18, 2011

Defense and Security
Friday File: Obama “Dithers” No More

  Libyan protesters in Tobruk celebrate after the UN Security Council passes a resolution authorizing a "no-fly" zone and military attacks on Muammar Qaddafi's forces. (Suhaib Salem/courtesy Reuters…

Libyan Protesters celebrate after a U.N. resolution authorising a
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

July 7, 2016

Japan
Will the Japanese Change Their Constitution?

This blog post is the first in a series entitled Will the Japanese Change Their Constitution?, in which leading experts discuss the prospects for revising Japan’s postwar constitution. In 1947, Ja…

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Blog Post by Sheila A. Smith Asia Unbound

October 27, 2012

United States
TWE Remembers: Black Saturday—Near Calamities Abound as JFK Offers Khrushchev a Deal (Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Twelve)

Murphy’s Law holds that if anything can go wrong, it will. On Saturday October 27, 1962, the twelfth day of the Cuban missile crisis, President John F. Kennedy might have been thinking about that fam…

A U-2 plane used during the Cuban Missile Crisis (Dino A. Brugioni Collection, The National Security Archive, Washington, DC).
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

June 4, 2009

China
Change or more of the same?

Simon Johnson poses the core question facing the United States and China well: If [China] doubles [its] holdings of US dollar assets over the next couple of years (let’s say, going towards $4trn), e…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money