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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…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

August 20, 2007

Financial Markets
Reverse engineering financial engineering

The process that turned subprime mortgages into triple AAA rated securities is, by now, pretty well known.   Rich Bookstaber (his blog is here) describes the process nicely.Here's the recipe for a CD…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

February 4, 2013

Defense and Security
Leon Panetta Reflects on U.S. Drone Strikes

In a series of farewell interviews over the past three days, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta made some interesting observations about drone strikes. As the director of the Central Intelligence Agen…

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Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

September 8, 2015

Fossil Fuels
Now What’s That Got to Do with the Price of Oil?

This post was co-written with Peyton Kliefoth, an economics major at Northwestern University and research intern at the Council. Over the weekend, I published a piece in Fortune Magazine explainin…

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Blog Post by Varun Sivaram Energy, Security, and Climate

February 8, 2005

Chairman Greenspan: Do Not Worry, Be Happy

The Chairman gave policy makers a green light not to worry about the US current account deficit: the dollar’s existing fall will lead the deficit to turn around. The Chairman’s remarks also seem to …

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money