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June 14, 2006

Financial Markets
The shifting balance of oil power

The Wall Street Journal has noticed that the state is no longer in retreat from the commanding heights of the global economy.  The basic pattern of capital flows is now set by central banks, not priv…

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December 13, 2006

Economics
Image, reality and the global flow of funds …

Most participants in US financial markets -- I suspect -- tend to think of the US market as a key global hub, with US financial markets serving helping to match the world's savings with the world's m…

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December 16, 2007

Economics
Weekend extra-credit -

Weekend reading for all those waiting for the US current account and TIC data on Monday. Time for a strong rupee policy?  This weeks’ Economics focus column intelligently discusses the policy d…

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October 13, 2008

Europe and Eurasia
Iceland in Crisis

The U.S. has left Russia to bail out Iceland with a $5.5 billion loan, even though the U.S. economy is over 11 times the size of Russia's. Is Iceland really of no strategic interest, despite specul…

Iceland in Crisis
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March 8, 2009

Financial Markets
The shadow financial system – as illustrated in three new papers that cut through the London fog

Gordon Brown wants to shine a bit more light on the shadow financial system (hat tip IPEZone). One plank of his G-20 action plan is: "reform of international regulation to close regulatory gaps so …

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