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April 18, 2005

Financial Markets
Tactical Issue Linkages

Dan Drezner has an interesting post up, laying out the components of a "serious" approach to encouraging (or pressuring) China to change its exchange rate peg. He nicely lays out the options, thoug…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

May 6, 2005

Economics
The Neiman Marcus economy powers on …

Luxury retailers are doing better than retailers that sell to poor folks ... that probably reflects the difference between those who are trying to get by on stagnant wage income in the face of higher…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

May 24, 2005

Global
Reducing the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism: A Review of the Department of Energy's Global Threat Reduction Initiative

Testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the opportunity to contribute to this important hearing on the D…

Testimony by Charles D. Ferguson Energy Security and Climate Change Program

May 24, 2005

United States
Reducing the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism: A Review of the Department of Energy’s Global Threat Reduction Initiative

Testimony before the House Energy and Commerce CommitteeSubcommittee on Oversight and InvestigationsMr. Chairman, I appreciate the opportunity to contribute to this important hearing on the Departmen…

Testimony by Charles Ferguson

August 3, 2005

Monetary Policy
Are US companies to Bretton Woods 2 …

What gold was to Bretton Woods 1?In the post war Bretton Woods system, the dollar was - at least in principle - fully convertible into gold at a fixed rate.   In practice, after a certain point in th…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money