http://blogs.cfr.org/setser/2008/09/11/a-snapshot-of-a-world-that-has-disappeared/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:40:10 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.cfr.org/setser/2008/09/11/a-snapshot-of-a-world-that-has-disappeared/#comment-112553 bsetser Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:05:10 +0000 http://blogs.cfr.org/setser/2008/09/11/a-snapshot-of-a-world-that-has-disappeared/#comment-112553 rien -- of course it matters. the question is how ... rien — of course it matters. the question is how …

]]> http://blogs.cfr.org/setser/2008/09/11/a-snapshot-of-a-world-that-has-disappeared/#comment-112499 Rien Huizer Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:27:17 +0000 http://blogs.cfr.org/setser/2008/09/11/a-snapshot-of-a-world-that-has-disappeared/#comment-112499 Looks like the US consumer/wage earner is an increasingly unhappy camper. Does that matter? Looks like the US consumer/wage earner is an increasingly unhappy camper. Does that matter?

]]> http://blogs.cfr.org/setser/2008/09/11/a-snapshot-of-a-world-that-has-disappeared/#comment-112492 bsetser Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:16:44 +0000 http://blogs.cfr.org/setser/2008/09/11/a-snapshot-of-a-world-that-has-disappeared/#comment-112492 thor -- i suspect you are right. plus oil price moves have an close-to-immediate impact will exchange rate moves work with a lag thor — i suspect you are right. plus oil price moves have an close-to-immediate impact will exchange rate moves work with a lag

]]> http://blogs.cfr.org/setser/2008/09/11/a-snapshot-of-a-world-that-has-disappeared/#comment-112490 thor Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:47:33 +0000 http://blogs.cfr.org/setser/2008/09/11/a-snapshot-of-a-world-that-has-disappeared/#comment-112490 and of course...US consumer is weaker and weaker and of course…US consumer is weaker and weaker

]]> http://blogs.cfr.org/setser/2008/09/11/a-snapshot-of-a-world-that-has-disappeared/#comment-112489 thor Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:42:48 +0000 http://blogs.cfr.org/setser/2008/09/11/a-snapshot-of-a-world-that-has-disappeared/#comment-112489 it seems to me that fall in oil prices was bigger than the fall of euro against the dollar. or let use better indicator - rise of dollar against trade weighted exchange index was smaller than rise of dollar against oil. so if we look at data this way, in August US gained more on smaller petroleum imports then smaller rise in exports. it seems to me that fall in oil prices was bigger than the fall of euro against the dollar. or let use better indicator – rise of dollar against trade weighted exchange index was smaller than rise of dollar against oil. so if we look at data this way, in August US gained more on smaller petroleum imports then smaller rise in exports.

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