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March 9, 2005
Emerging Markets
Brad DeLong covers the Argentine crisis, in one night
DeLong is clearly working his way through Paul Blustein’s book on Argentina. Martin Wolf has a column on Argentina’s restructuring in yesterday’s Financial Times, which I quite liked, for rather obv…
September 16, 2005
Economics
Happy (late) blog birthday
It has been a bit over a year since I started doing this. I did not anticipate the blog would generate half the audience it has. I often have focused on relatively obscure topics: the global bala…
June 1, 2007
Monetary Policy
$45b for China in April, at least $33b for Russia in May — global reserve growth remains exceptionally strong
China’s reserves apparently increased by $45b in April, rising to $1247b.Krzysztof Rybinski of Poland’s National Bank asks what fraction of China’s April increase is real and what fraction comes from…
October 7, 2010
Technology and Innovation
What comes after gunpowder, paper, the compass, and printing?
The New York Times had a short piece yesterday, based on a longer report by Thomson Reuters, about how China is now poised to become the world leader in patent filings by 2011. There has been a ma…
December 7, 2010
More Celebrities and Foreign Policy
Yesterday I blogged on an article in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine about John Prendergast’s efforts to enlist celebrities to help bring attention to humanitarian disasters in Africa. A sharp-ey…
