1 day ago by Blogger Bryn

Economics help offers this summary http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/economics/exchange-rate-and-current-account/ NB: The bit on the J curve is not needed for AS

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2 days ago by M Kraten

During yesterday’s Super Bowl, the championship game of American football, viewers witnessed countless numbers of overpowering collisions as powerful running backs repeatedly charged into massive linemen. So what happens when such unstoppable forces meet correspondingly immovable objects? To quote t ...

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8 days ago by Michael Pettis

I am traveling in DC, NY and Boston over the next few days, and between meetings and jet-lag it is hard for me to do much on my blog, but I did want to extend a short piece I wrote that was published yesterday in the South China Morning Post. This is because it is about central bank reserves, a topi ...

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20 days ago by Ainsley Brown

By: Ainsley Brown The Russian central bank, the Bank of Russia, announced today that it will begin to further diversify its foreign currency reserves by buy Canadian dollar dominated deposits and securities. The move is in response to the falling value of the US dollar and the appreciation of commod ...

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24 days ago by prchovanec

I know I promised to follow up with more comments on China’s real estate market, but I’d like to take a few moments today to offer some thoughts on a closely related but much broader issue: inflation. When I spoke at the American Chamber of Commerce in China a month ago, my fellow panelist Arthur Kr ...

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28 days ago by Don Boudreaux

Cato’s always-superb Dan Ikenson understands that reporters and politicians don’t understand the so-called “trade deficit.” Dan also understands the real meaning of the growth in exports from China.

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34 days ago by Daniel J. Smith

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/pursuit-of-happiness/the-balance-of-payments-deficit-not-to-worry/ Posted in Balance of Payments, Trade Deficit

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34 days ago by Don Boudreaux

Here’s my latest column in The Freeman. In it, I assume (for the sake of argument) that the Beijing government does in fact keep the Chinese yuan undervalued. I then ask if such a policy is one that harms Americans and helps the Chinese people. I answer “no”: The real costs of the resources and outp ...

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43 days ago by prchovanec

I was on CCTV-9’s Dialogue program last night, talking about Premier Wen Jiabao’s latest interview on economic policy and assessing China’s economic outlook for 2010. Anyone who’d like a quick overview of the main issues China is facing in the coming year might find it worthwhile viewing. Issues we ...

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52 days ago by Garry

Here is the U.S. Balance of Payments for Services ($M) over the last 20 years (1979-2008). I used Swivel.com for data visualization to best represent the magnitude of change.

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