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September 13, 2006

China
Will the good cop (Hank Paulson) get results …

Hank Paulson delivered his big speech on “the international economic system” today.    It was mostly about China.   That is not a surprise.  He is going to China next week. It makes sense too.   The …

March 21, 2016

Turkey
Shameless in Turkey: Aydinlik, Sabah, and Henri

After this weekend's horrific terrorist attack in Istanbul, many pro-government Turkish newspapers shamefully levied false accusations against an American scholar for the incident.

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August 15, 2007

Monetary Policy
Hank Paulson and W (heart) foreign central banks

Three numbers from today’s TIC data release: Net recorded inflows to the US in June:  $58.8bNet official inflows: $58.2bNet private inflows: $0.7b Kind of destroys the illusion that t…

May 31, 2006

Economics
Paulson, not Evans … but don’t look here for an explanation of what it means

The Goldman takeover of W's second term (Bolton, Paulson) continues ... I'll leave it to you all to figure out.My timing isn't great, but I am taking a few days off -- and won't have sustained intern…

March 5, 2024

United States
Ten Facts About the State of the Union Address

President Biden will deliver the annual State of the Union address on Thursday night. Here are ten things you might not know about the tradition of having a president deliver an annual address.

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