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September 12, 2005

China
Show me the money (really, show me China’s reserves)

China's Alan Greenspan (Zhou Xiaochuan) has indicated China won't roil financial markets with "active composition adjustments of the foreign reserves."  fine.   But any central bank adding about $20 …

August 11, 2006

United States
Despite what Lex says, the euro/ dollar does matter

Dean Baker’s critique of Monday’s Lex column on the dollar was on the mark.  Lex made rather selective use of the facts to argue that dollar depreciation (and renminbi appreciation) has little impact…

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October 4, 2006

Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Why is 2045 more important than 2007?

Like Dean Baker, I am growing tired of reading editorials complaining about a failure to take “Social Security’s long-term problem” seriously.True, projections show a deficit of something like 1.5% o…

January 16, 2007

Budget, Debt, and Deficits
The Washington Post really doesn’t like Social Security …

Best I can tell, Social Security is in the best financial shape of any federal program.  It is in far better future shape than Medicare.   And it is in way better shape than the portion of the govern…

September 16, 2007

Financial Markets
Strong oil, weak dollar -

The negative correlation between the dollar and the price of oil was much in evidence  last week – The dollar hit a record low against the euro, and is quite weak against most of the major currencies…