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May 15, 2009

Monetary Policy
Different conceptions of China’s future role in the global financial system

Discussions of China’s role in the world that aren’t dominated by economists often end up focusing on China’s willingness to act as a "responsible stakeholder" in the global system. That is diplomat…

January 13, 2006

Financial Markets
How should the Federal Reserve respond to asset bubbles?

Or, if not bubbles, large-scale froth in "zoned" land and Vegas? Read the Economist.  Then read Nouriel Roubini's interpretation of New York Federal Reserve President Tim Geithner's latest speech.

October 14, 2008

Economics
Congratulations Dr. Krugman

Obviously very well-deserved. Of course, I am more-than-a-little biased. A few weeks ago, I was thrilled to find out that this blog was on the reading list of an upper level Princeton course…

October 21, 2008

China
The end of Bretton Woods 2?

In late 2004, Nouriel Roubini and I wrote that “the tensions created [by the Bretton Woods 2 system] are large, large enough to crack the system in the next three to four years.” In a 2005 Wall Stre…

June 11, 2008

Economics
Geoeconomic Center Hires Expert on Capital Flows and Emerging Markets

Brad W. Setser has joined the Council as a fellow in the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, focusing on the foreign policy consequences of capital surpluses in East Asia and oil-exp…