foreign reserves

How Do You Say (Way) Off-balance Sheet In Chinese?

By |2020-06-24T19:38:33-04:00June 24th, 2020|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

Where central banks are concerned, it’s not conspiracy theory so much as the term “off-balance sheet.” There’s a reason Enron kicked off that mass-migration into the footnotes. For monetary officials, there’s the choice to be like Montagu Norman and what he thought of good practice at central banks. Silence.For years, the Chinese have tried it the other way. Big Mama [...]

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

By |2020-03-30T17:46:41-04:00March 30th, 2020|Bonds, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

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 [...]

The TIC of CNY and China’s 2020 Risks

By |2020-02-19T17:23:14-05:00February 19th, 2020|Bonds, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

What’s going on in China? It’s a question that is on everyone’s mind. While most attention is focused on the unfolding human tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic, the potential for it to be compounded by any economic fallout makes for even more urgency. The sad truth is that China was in rough shape heading into the coronavirus. How rough, though? [...]

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