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Author Archives: Menzie Chinn
Some Iraq cost metrics on a one year anniversary
Evaluating the costs one year after Cheney’s prediction of “the last throes …of the insurgency”
The 2006q1 Current Account figures
Upside surprises. Will they continue?
What happens to the dollar when interest rates stop rising?
Further predictions of secular dollar weakness, from a portfolio balance perspective
The economic impact of a disruption to container trade
Congress acts — to cut funds for port security
April 2006 Trade Balance Figures
Where the ex. oil trade balance is going, and what trade prices are doing.
The dollar and interest rate expectations
What can one read from asset responses to “news”
Learning (or non-learning) from the Classical Age
Or, what if George W. Bush had lived in 480 BCE; would we all be speaking Persian?
Does a new economic team mean a new economic policy?
Henry Paulson has been nominated to the position of Secretary of Treasury. Will it matter?
The Euro, the Dollar and Globalization
Thinking about some big global macro issues