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Brad Setser — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Brad Setser has appeared on 2 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including Odd Lots. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Brad said
“The world doesn't love China, I think. China can be a coercive power... Yet it is very, very difficult for most countries around the world to respond by not trading with China.”
— Brad Setser, on the limits of geopolitical sentiment in trade and finance.
“To me, the core question is not really whether the geopolitics will change things... I think the real question is is that the same thing is this intense overweight in the dollar sustainable when we have fairly reckless policies? And the answer so far has been yes.”
— Brad Setser, on the resilience of dollar demand.
Episode appearances
2“The notion that reserves are the source of inflows into dollars is a bit dated,” says Brad Setser, the Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. In a wide-ranging…
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