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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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December 14, 2008
Capital Flows
Sovereign loss funds ...
Ok, my title is a more-than-a-bit unfair. But sovereign wealth funds are fundamentally vehicles for investing central bank reserves -- or Treasury reserves from surplus oil revenue -- in equities …
February 21, 2005
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
The confused conservatives on the Washington Post oped page …
The Washington Post put out an oped on the partial privatization of Social Security over the weekend, which Kevin Drum appropriately jumped on.One item in the oped jumped out at me:The second risk i…
February 26, 2005
Emerging Markets
Has Argentina changed the rules of the sovereign debt game?
Argentina is on the verge of completing one of the largest sovereign debt restructurings in history. Argentina is seeking to restructure about $82 billion in bonds, plus $21 billion or so in past d…
February 13, 2006
Monetary Policy
It is back. Bretton Woods 2 (central bank financing of the US)
Some would say it never really went away.Emerging market economies did not stop accumulating reserves in 2005. Best I can tell, adjusting for valuation effects and including all the foreign assets o…
March 14, 2009
Monetary Policy
China has more to worry about than its Treasury holdings
Premier Wen knows how to get attention; all he has to do is raise a few doubts about China’s ongoing willingness to keep on buying US assets. The FT, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times …
