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February 21, 2006

Emerging Markets
Frederick Kempe of the Wall Street Journal gets an awful lot of things wrong

As, I suspect, does Joseph Quinlan of the Bank of America- the source of much of Kempe's analysis.   Kempe's core argument: consumers in emerging markets are driving global demand.   His eviden…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

November 30, 2016

United States
The Dollar Trumps Carrier

Here is a bit of ballpark math. Carrier has announced it will keep open a factory in Indiana, retaining around 1,000 jobs. Since the election, the broad dollar has appreciated by about 4%, presumab…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

August 27, 2021

U.S. Foreign Policy
Five Movies Worth Watching About Foreign-Policy Conspiracies

Every summer Friday, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: films about conspiracies in the halls of power. 

Three movie posters in black frames. From left: The Manchurian Candidate (a sketch of a man, a gun, and a queen of hearts card); JFK (a man looks out from a red, white, and blue design); Kill the Messenger (a man with the U.S. Capitol Building reflected in his sunglasses).
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay and Margaret Gach The Water's Edge

August 20, 2021

Wars and Conflict
Five Foreign-Policy Movies Worth Watching About Being in Combat

Every summer Friday, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: films about the experience of war. 

Three movie posters: Platoon (a helmet lies upside down beneath a line of soldiers); The Thin Red Line (a close up of three soldiers’ faces in grass); 1917 (two soldiers run into a sunrise).
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay and Margaret Gach The Water's Edge

March 4, 2015

United States
Top Ten Vietnam War Movies

The Water's Edge picks for the best films about the Vietnam War. 

Vietnam-War-Films
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge