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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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Can hidden Chinese or Russian buying of U.S. Treasuries through Belgium explain curious movements in asset prices or central-bank reserves? What is the impact of steel tariffs on auto employment? What can the price of iPad Minis tell us about currency wars? I examine these and other geoeconomic questions, with great visuals, in regular Geo-Graphics blog posts.
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“The globalisation of the [Chinese RMB] seems remorseless and unstoppable,” the Economist pronounced in April 2014. A year later, a research-grant foundation asked me (Benn) to review …
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The CFR Global Imbalances Tracker can be used to gauge, through time, the vulnerability of individual countries and the global economy to the buildup of imbalances in the current account.
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CFR’s Global Monetary Policy Tracker compiles data from 54 countries around the world to highlight significant global trends in monetary policy. Who is tightening policy? Who is loosening policy? And what is the policy stance of the world as a whole?
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The CFR Sovereign Risk Tracker can be used to gauge the vulnerability of emerging markets to default on external debt.