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September 11, 2008

Monetary Policy
Finance as foreign policy

The Financial Times seems to have found an obviously non-commercial investment by a sovereign state. And it didn’t come from a sovereign fund. China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange seems…

April 4, 2008

United States
The poor are financing the profligate

Martin Wolf’s column – “The prudent will have to pay for the profligate” – focuses on the need for the broad public to help out some who took large risks in the boom, whether individuals who borrowed…

August 3, 2009

China
China, new financial superpower …

One of the biggest economic and political stories of this decade has been China’s emergence as the world’s biggest creditor country. At least in a ‘flow” sense. China’s current account surplus i…

March 29, 2017

Sub-Saharan Africa
Rand Falls as Finance Minister Gordhan is Ordered Home

On March 27, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and Deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas were on an investor road show to the United Kingdom and the United States when they were abruptly ordered to ret…

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September 24, 2018

Economics
Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics: The Legacy of the Global Financial Crisis

CFR hosted the 2018 Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics: The Legacy of the Global Financial Crisis on September 24, in New York. The symposium was created to address the broad spectrum…

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