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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…

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December 11, 2007

Emerging Markets
The new financial superpowers (part 2)

Sovereign wealth funds are hot.   A senior JP Morgan Chase banker, quoted in Time: "SWFs ... are the new 'it' girl of global finance. Everyone wants a piece of them."  Almost every investment bank …

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March 18, 2008

Sovereign Funds: The writing on the wall…

Rachel Ziemba Note: This post is from Rachel Ziemba, not Brad Setser. "Like private firms, pension funds, and other institutional investors, Abu Dhabi’s investment organizations have always sought …

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April 30, 2005

Monetary Policy
So, have central banks lost interest in Treasuries?

Two apologies in advance: First, this is one my wonkier/ data-intensive kind of posts. Second, this post responds to a subscription only Wall Street Journal C4 article by Agnes Crane that ran last …

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August 2, 2016

India
What Will It Take to Turn Natural Gas Around in India?

This guest post is co-authored by Sarang Shidore, a visiting scholar at the LBJ School at the University of Texas at Austin, and Joshua Busby, associate professor of public affairs at the Robert S. S…

An LNG tanker from Qatar bound for Asia. Qatar is one of the major supplier of imported gas to India (Flickr).
Blog Post by Guest blogger for Varun Sivaram Energy, Security, and Climate