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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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March 25, 2008
Monetary Policy
Record reserves, Record reserve growth, record reserve currency angst -
Over the past several weeks: Thailand’s reserves topped $100b. Thailand, lest anyone forget, basically ran out of cash reserves back in 1997 (counting its forward commitments) - sending a clear …
December 13, 2007
Financial Markets
Euro-yuan-dollar diplomacy
Europe to China: Please do not buy any more euros.EU economic and monetary affairs commissioner Joaquin Almunia said China should not take any steps to increase its euro reserves at the moment. Aske…
April 6, 2008
Financial Markets
A RMB that isn’t appreciating cannot be killing you …
The premise of Joe Nocera’s New York Times story “Two factories, two firms” is logical enough: an appreciating RMB should hurt a low-end, cost-conscious textile exporter and help a higher-end manufac…
May 18, 2007
China
Exchange rates don’t matter. At not least not the RMB/ dollar …
Sometimes it seems that the larger China’s current account surplus – and the bigger the share of the US current account deficit financed by China’s government – the more insistent the Economist becom…
June 10, 2008
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Shhh.. don’t tell any one. The US trade deficit is getting worse, not better
The $60.9 billion monthly April trade deficit was the largest monthly deficit since last March. So much for the notion that the trade deficit has turned the proverbial corner. One price explains …
