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June 29, 2017

United States
The Trump Dollar Revisited

Disaggregating the broad dollar.

Tracking the Broad Dollar

April 24, 2018

International Economic Policy
Asia's Central Banks and Sovereign Funds Are Back

East Asia (China, Japan, and the NIEs) ran a $600 billion current account surplus in 2017. "Official" (central bank and sovereign fund) outflows accounted for about half of that. Asia's foreign excha…

Asia's Central Banks and Sovereign Funds Are Back

May 18, 2017

Singapore
Singapore's "Shadow" Intervention

Singapore looks to have resumed intervention in the foreign exchange market

Singapore: Official Asset Growth

July 24, 2019

International Economic Policy
The IMF (Still) Cannot Quit Fiscal Consolidation…

The IMF's country-level fiscal advice has an adding up problem. The IMF (over time) wants most countries to match the euro zone and head toward fiscal balance. That though would leave the world short…

A woman walks past the International Monetary Fund (IMF) logo at its headquarters in Washington, U.S., May 10, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

October 5, 2017

Eurozone
Official Investors and the Eurozone Debt Market

The share of Treasuries held by official investors—foreign central bank reserve managers as well as the Fed—has been going down in recent years. But the share of Eurozone bonds held by official inves…

Official Investors and the Eurozone Debt Market