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September 6, 2008

Monetary Policy
Reserve growth has slowed, but it probably hasn’t stopped

For the past several months, almost all global reserve growth has come from China and the oil exporters. These also are countries that tend either not to report their reserves data quickly (China f…

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December 28, 2007

Monetary Policy
The IMF’s data for global reserve growth in q3

I would caution against reading too much into the fall in the dollar's share of global reserves in the latest IMF COFER data release for two reasons:First, most of the fall in q3 is explained by the …

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Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

June 11, 2024

RealEcon
Supporting American Small Businesses Against Foreign Threats

Small businesses are critical to U.S. national security. They’re also increasingly targeted by foreign cyberattacks. The federal government can do more to protect them.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees work inside the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center in Arlington
Article by Tara Donohue Bartels and Tarah Wheeler RealEcon

March 30, 2007

Monetary Policy
Almost unimaginably large (2006 global reserve growth)

Those were Robert Rubin’s words to describe the US current account deficit.   They apply equally well to the amount of dollars the world’s central banks lent to the US in 2006.   Press coverage of th…

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January 5, 2017

China
China’s Q3 Balance of Payments Data Helps Explain Why Q3 Reserves Fell So Much

I want to step back a bit from the rather extraordinary moves in the offshore yuan market over the past few days. It seems quite clear that China’s authorities felt the need to signal that the yuan i…

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