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January 11, 2006

China
China’s December trade

The most impressive part of China's most recent trade data:  18% y/y growth in December exports.  That pushed China's monthly exports up to $75.4 billion, and laid the basis for a $11 billion monthly…

February 5, 2006

United States
Is national income accounting biased against the US?

In a fake news classic, Rob Corddry and Jon Stewart of the Daily Show once pondered how to report "the facts" when "the facts themselves were biased."  Michael Mandel seems to think the facts are bia…

April 3, 2006

China
Grassley-Baucus-Adams? And (another) long rant about the Economist …

The Treasury doesn't want to declare China to be guilty of manipulation.   Picking a fight with one of your biggest creditors isn't smart.  Right now, no one is buying more US debt (China buys a lot …

Grassley-Baucus-Adams?  And (another) long rant about the Economist …

April 10, 2006

China
A shortage of labor in coastal China is a good thing

Unless, I suspect, if you are a Hong Kond textile magnate.  I don't entirely agree with Stephen Roach's argument that the US should thank China for its cheap financing so long as the US doesn't save…

May 11, 2006

China
I must be the least dovish of all China doves …

I have been quoted rather extensively in the past few days on Treasury’s foreign exchange report – And in this debate, you are either a dove or a hawk.   Doves (Roach) don’t think that the US sho…