The Economist did a big feature on petrodollars.   Breaking views and a host of financial columnists have hinted that Hank Paulson should have paid a visit to Riyahd as well as Beijing.  The BIS attr…

Both the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal have done a great job reporting on the rise of sovereign wealth funds.   Joanna Chung and Tony Tassel’s nuanced analysis of the impact of sovereig…

The UAE’s central bank will apparently use $10 billion of its foreign exchange reserves to buy $10 billion of a (planned) $20 billion Dubai debt issue. That will provide Dubai with $10 billion in fo…

Statistical agencies usually are not the authoritative source of information on a country’s reserve portfolio.  Nor do they usually comment on exchange rate policy or the investment decisions of a co…

This is too good for me not to link to it.Billmon has reduced the Roubini-Setser critique of Bretton Woods 2 down to its essential elements.The Lex column in the Financial Times covers similar ground…