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...overall position in U.S. debt. (Beijing sold $9.2 billion of long-term U.S. Treasuries in November but bought $38.2 billion of short-term government notes.) Indeed, part of the reason short-term interest rates are so low in the U.S., as Council on Foreign Relations economist Brad Setser notes, is that foreign central banks - including China's - are doing the same thing private investors have been doing: pouring funds into short-term, highly liquid, dollar-based assets. If China reversed course and pulled money out of the U.S. in a big way, it would ravage the value...
...crisis - than to the subprime credit crunch itself. "China's exposure comes from its concentrated bet on the dollar and the risk that the U.S. policy response to a slowing economy and investors' aversion to U.S. debt will combine to put pressure on the dollar going forward," says Brad Setser, a former U.S. Treasury Department official now at the Council on Foreign Relations. That would mean further upward pressure on China's currency, the renminbi, at a time when the country's exporters are already hurting from slowing global growth. That in turn could slow growth even further domestically...
...preference for making announcements on Sunday--just before the markets open for the week in Asia. "I suspect this is the first case where foreign central banks exercised their leverage as creditors to push the U.S. government to make a policy decision that protected their interests," wrote Brad Setser, an economist at the Council on Foreign Relations who closely tracks capital flows. One suspects it won't be the last...
...find it surprising that Brad Setser and other UC members quoted in your article support a wider use of the CUE to assess teaching fellows. Such a practice would represent a quick fix of "empowerment" to those students who care or are particularly disgruntled that would, in the end, be diluted by the general apathy and lack of inspiration in the average CUE response. A few particularly lame TFs would go to the woodshed on the third floor of the Science Center and the status quo would remain in place. The plan also makes Dean Buell look good while...
...think it's a wonderful ideas," said Brad W. Setser '93. "It provides strong incentives for TF's who do poorly to seek out help. I believe it will increase the quality of sections...