Budget, Debt, and Deficits

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The savings glut. Controversy guaranteed.
June 30, 2009
By Brad W. Setser
The evolution of the United States’ external balance sheet in the last decade (wonky)
June 28, 2009
By Brad W. Setser
The 2008 US net international investment position: Without valuation gains, ongoing borrowing pushes the US deeper into the red
June 26, 2009
By Brad W. Setser
Near-record growth in the custodial holdings at the Fed; ongoing angst about the dollar’s role as a reserve currency ...
June 24, 2009
By Brad W. Setser
Yes Virginia, there was an international financial crisis in 2007 and 2008
June 23, 2009
By Brad W. Setser
Expert Take
Funding the U.S. Counterinsurgency Wars
June 18, 2009
By Stephen Biddle
Today’s balance of payments release was overshadowed ...
June 18, 2009
By Brad W. Setser
Read Brender and Pisani’s “Globalised finance and its collapse”
June 16, 2009
By Brad W. Setser
Three quick points on the April TIC data
June 15, 2009
By Brad W. Setser
Just who bought all the Treasuries the issued in late 2008 and early 2009?
June 12, 2009
By Brad W. Setser
The return of Bretton Woods Two? (or Bretton Woods 2.1?)
June 5, 2009
By Brad W. Setser
Change or more of the same?
June 4, 2009
By Brad W. Setser
Financing U.S. Debt
June 3, 2009
By Benn Steil and Dinah Walker
Not just emerging markets
June 3, 2009
By Brad W. Setser
More on the fall in private borrowing and the rise in the fiscal defict
June 2, 2009
By Brad W. Setser
Record demand, record angst
May 29, 2009
By Brad W. Setser
The Treasury market, in a world no longer dominated by central bank reserve managers
May 27, 2009
By Brad W. Setser
Too much, or too little
May 27, 2009
By Brad W. Setser
A View from the Hill: U.S. National Security
May 21, 2009
A View from the Hill: U.S. National Security
May 21, 2009
"We hate you guys ... but there is nothing much we can do"
May 17, 2009
By Brad W. Setser
Different conceptions of China’s future role in the global financial system
May 15, 2009
By Brad W. Setser
Not putting your money where your mouth is
May 13, 2009
By Brad W. Setser
Minus twenty, minus twenty, minus twenty ...
May 13, 2009
By Brad W. Setser