Tag Archive: global dollar short

(No) Dollars And (No) Sense: Eighty Argentinas

2020-03-31

India Official Reserve Assets, 2016-2020

India like many emerging market countries around the world holds an enormous stockpile of foreign exchange reserves. According to the latest weekly calculation published by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the country’s central bank, that total was a bit less than half a trillion. While it sounds impressive, when the month began the balance was much closer to that mark.

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Weird Obsessions

2017-07-04

by Jeffrey P. Snider

2017-07-04

People often ask why I care so much about China. In some ways the answer is obvious, meaning that China is the world’s second largest economy (the largest under certain methods of measurement). Therefore, marginal changes in the Chinese economy are important to understanding our own global situation.

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This Is Not Expansion

2017-05-06

by Jeffrey P. Snider

2017-05-06

Back in October, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released GDP figures that suggested what those behind “reflation” had hoped. After a near miss to start 2016, the economy had shaken off the effects of “transitory” weakness, mainly manufacturing and oil, poised to perform in a manner consistent with monetary policy rhetoric.

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Optimal Lunacy

2017-04-15

by Jeffrey P. Snider

2017-04-15

In June 2012, Janet Yellen, then the Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve, addressed an audience in Boston with what for the time seemed like a radical departure. It was the latest in a string of them, for conditions throughout the “recovery” period never did quite seem to hit the recovery stride. Because of that, there was constant stream of trial balloons suggesting how the Federal Reserve might try to overcome this economic inertia. At that...

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China And Reserves, A Straightforward Process Unnecessarily Made Into A Riddle

2017-03-08

by Jeffrey P. Snider

2017-03-08

China Official Foreign Exchange 2015-2017

The fact that China reported a small increase in official “reserves” for February 2017 is one of the least surprising results in all of finance. The gamma of those reserves is as predictable as the ticking clock of CNY, in no small part because what is behind the changes in those balances are the gears that lie behind face of the forex timepiece.

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