Budget, Debt, and Deficits

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This is what a crisis looks like in the balance of payments data
December 15, 2008
By Brad W. Setser
Quick take on today’s US trade data
December 11, 2008
By Brad W. Setser
Global trade is shrinking, fast
December 10, 2008
By Brad W. Setser
Reserves are meant to be used in bad times
December 5, 2008
By Brad W. Setser
China is starting to sound like a normal creditor country
December 4, 2008
By Brad W. Setser
Backgrounder
Defense Spending During Economic Crisis
December 4, 2008
Should the currency of the country with a large and growing trade surplus and large and growing reserves depreciate against the dollar?
December 3, 2008
By Brad W. Setser
Capitalism's End?
December 2, 2008
By Benn Steil and Dinah Walker
There is now little doubt ...
November 19, 2008
By Brad W. Setser
You know it is a crisis when the trade deficit could have been financed just by selling t-bills to China and European banks
November 18, 2008
By Brad W. Setser
Ut-oh .... exports are starting to fall fast
November 13, 2008
By Brad W. Setser
China’s fiscal stimulus doesn’t necessarily mean that it will stop buying Treasuries
November 12, 2008
By Brad W. Setser
China Embraces Keynes
November 10, 2008
By Benn Steil and Dinah Walker
Borrowing more, but borrowing proportionately less from the world’s central banks
November 4, 2008
By Brad W. Setser
The end of Bretton Woods 2?
October 21, 2008
By Brad W. Setser
How far will the US trade deficit fall next year?
October 20, 2008
By Brad W. Setser
The mysterious August dollar rally; it wasn’t supported by any uptick in foreign demand for US assets
October 16, 2008
By Brad W. Setser
Will the world’s macroeconomic imbalances soon reduce to China’s surplus and offsetting deficits in the US and Europe?
October 15, 2008
By Brad W. Setser
Minister Says Iraq Has No Budget Surplus, Worries over Reconstruction
October 10, 2008
By Bayan Jabr Solagh and Greg Bruno
Will the US current account deficit fall faster than the IMF forecasts?
October 9, 2008
By Brad W. Setser
Official flows now make up the majority of gross flows to the US
October 6, 2008
By Brad W. Setser
It is (almost) official: the quiet bailout is roughly equal in size to the US current account deficit
September 28, 2008
By Brad W. Setser
Why no dollar crisis? The needed flows don’t show up in the TIC data ...
September 19, 2008
By Brad W. Setser
A snapshot of a world that has disappeared?
September 11, 2008
By Brad W. Setser