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- ↑ Daniel W. Drezner (26 May 2016). "When is transparency a form of economic statecraft?". The Washington Post . Retrieved 25 February 2019.
Back in the day, Brad Setser was the go-to guy when it came to debates about cross-border financial flows, macroeconomic imbalances, what China was doing to keep its currency undervalued and whether other countries holding large amounts of U.S. debt was a thing or not. His Council on Foreign Relations blog was a must-read for those in the economics blogosphere who cared about these matters. Then Setser had to go and get a job in the Obama administration. The rest of us were left wandering in the political economy desert.
- ↑ Inti Pacheco; Theo Francis. "Apple Rattled Markets With Warning About China. Who's Next?". The Wall Street Journal .
U.S. companies competing in China's consumer markets tend to target wealthier customers, where the slowdown is more pronounced, said Brad Setser, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who was deputy assistant Treasury secretary for international economic analysis in the Obama administration.
- ↑ Mike Bird. "IMF Shows Risks in China's Debt Markets as Global Popularity Booms". The Wall Street Journal .
Brad Setser, an economist at the Council on Foreign Relations, noted that foreign demand for Chinese bonds exceeded foreign demand for U.S. bonds in the second quarter of 2018.
- ↑ Colby Smith (February 2019). "A potential new snag in US China Trade". Financial Times .
If "stable" means the renminbi continues to trade within a band set by officials at China's central bank on a daily basis, then according to Brad Setser at the Council on Foreign Relations, this isn't such a large ask from the US. In fact, China has committed to this kind of policy for many years now — most aggressively since September as Setser's chart shows.
- ↑ Matthew C Klien (9 February 2018). "Brad Setser explains how corporate tax policy affects the balance of payments". Financial Times . Retrieved 24 February 2019.
- ↑ Brad Setser, Council on Foreign Relations (6 February 2019). "The Global Con Hidden in Trump's Tax Reform Law, Revealed". The New York Times . Retrieved 24 February 2019.
- ↑ Brad Setser (8 October 2018). "Puerto Rico Needs a Better Debt Deal". Bloomberg Finance. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
- ↑ "Agency Review Teams". President-Elect Joe Biden. Archived from the original on 28 August 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
