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Brad Setser
brad_setser@msn.com

Brad Setser is a research associate at the Global Economic Governance Programme at University College, Oxford. He was an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He served in the US Treasury from 1997 to 2001, where he worked extensively on the reform of the international financial architecture, sovereign debt restructurings, and US policy toward the IMF. He was the acting director of the US Treasury's Office of International Monetary and Financial Policy.

He is author, with Nouriel Roubini, of Bailouts or Bail-ins? Responding to Financial Crises in Emerging Economies  and he keeps a weblog at http://www.roubiniglobal.com/setser/.

 

 

Contributions

The falling dollar, Social Security and foreign debt
ASK THIS | December 30, 2004
The last of five questions reporters should be asking about who's lending us all this money, why, and for how long?


What's the tipping point?
ASK THIS | December 17, 2004
At some point, won't foreign central banks stop financing us? The third of five questions reporters should be asking about who's lending us all this money, why, and for how long?


Preventing a precipitous fall
ASK THIS | December 22, 2004
Here is the fourth of five questions reporters should be asking about who's lending us all this money, why, and for how long?


What will it mean to me?
ASK THIS | December 10, 2004
What would the end of foreign-bank financing mean to regular people? The last of five questions reporters should be asking about who's lending us all this money, why, and for how long?


Why are foreign central banks being so generous?
ASK THIS | December 09, 2004
Here is the second of five questions reporters should be asking about who's lending us all this money, why, and for how long?


Who's financing our deficit?
ASK THIS | December 06, 2004
The American press is starting to get wise to the risks presented by towering deficits. Here is the first of five questions reporters should be asking about who's lending us all this money, why, and for how long? (See the entire series.)


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