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What About IDR?

By |2018-03-06T17:25:03-05:00March 6th, 2018|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

On October 31, 1997, the IMF announced a rescue for Indonesia. Though it was Thailand who caught the Asian flu first, it was this latter country where a monetary line in the sand was drawn. Nobody wanted to find out what a complete wipeout of the Indonesia rupiah might mean for financial conditions across Asia. Included in that category of [...]

The Real Flows of China

By |2015-11-09T13:03:53-05:00November 9th, 2015|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

The unrelenting economic decline in China is finally getting the attention of economists and the media as something more than a big problem “for them.” Imports declined by 18.8% in October after having contracted by 20.5% in August. On the export side, Chinese goods sent abroad fell 6.9% year-over-year in dollars which confirms that the contraction is not China’s alone [...]

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