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October 30, 2020

Currency Reserves
It Is Time To Scrap the IMF's Reserve Adequacy Metric

The IMF reserve metric isn't working: it is failing to differentiate between obviously under-reserved countries like Turkey and Argentina and adequately reserved countries like China.

It Is Time To Scrap the IMF's Reserve Adequacy Metric
Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

September 12, 2024

Defense and Security
Congress’s Funding Battle, Iran Sends Missiles to Russia, Orbán Defies the EU, and More

The U.S. Congress returns from its summer recess to try to pass a budget for federal discretionary programs before the fiscal year ends and avoid a government shutdown; the United States and other We…

Podcast Iranian ballistic missiles displayed during the ceremony of joining the Armed Forces, in Tehran, Iran, on August 22, 2023. West Asia News Agency/Handout/Reuters
Podcast by Robert McMahon and Carla Anne Robbins The World Next Week

September 10, 2024

Brazil
Brazil’s Other Deforestation Threat Plus Benefits of Blue Collar Immigration

Deforestation progress in the Amazon offset by losses in the Cerrado; Blue collar immigration’s fiscal and economic benefits.

A Brazilian wildcat miner pans for gold at a wildcat gold mine in a deforested area of the Amazon rainforest.
Blog Post by Shannon K. O'Neil and Will Freeman Latin America’s Moment

August 15, 2024

China Strategy Initiative
The US Needs More than a Critical Minerals Stockpile, It Needs Market Infrastructure

Last month, Ganfeng Lithium, China’s largest lithium producer and refiner, announced plans to establish a $1.1 billion trading desk “to reduce the risk of market fluctuations” associated with its gro…

Employees monitor screens showing real-time footages of mining operations in a ground control centre, at Xiaobaodang Coal Mine, during a Huawei-organised media tour, in Shenmu of Yulin city, Shaanxi province, China April 26, 2023. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang
Article by Arnab Datta and Ashley George China Strategy Initiative

July 10, 2009

Weekly Federal Reserve balance sheet update

This post is by Mark Dow This just hit my inbox, from the research team at Barclays. Since we’ve talked a fair amount of late about the Fed balance sheet, I thought I’d pass it on. "Weekly Federal …

Blog Post by Mark Dow Mark Dow Follow the Money

September 18, 2024

United States
Happy 77th Birthday to the United States Air Force

The United States Air Force marks seventy-seven years of service today. 

USAF B-52 Stratofortress in flight
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

September 11, 2024

Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste: Twenty-Five Years After Independence

Timor-Leste has emerged as a democratic bright spot in a region struggling with democratic regression.

Timor's Prime Miinster stands at a podium with a red cloth over it while he gestures his hands.
Blog Post by Joshua Kurlantzick Asia Unbound