Author

Brad Setser

BRAD SETSER is Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as a Senior Adviser to the U.S. Trade Representative from 2021 to 2022 and was Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary from 2011 to 2015. He is the author of Sovereign Wealth and Sovereign Power: The Strategic Consequences of American Indebtedness.

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The Real Problem With Global Trade

How China’s Currency Manipulation Is Warping the World Economy

Brad Setser and Shahin Vallée

June 11, 2026

The Dangerous Myth of Deglobalization

Misperceptions of the Global Economy Are Driving Bad Policies

June 4, 2024

Beijing’s Debts Come Due

How a Burst Real-Estate Bubble Threatens China’s Economy

August 30, 2022

The COVID-19 Crisis in Emerging Markets Demands a Once-in-a-Century Response

Will the IMF Pass the Pandemic Stress Test?

May 27, 2020

China Needs Bigger Government

A Stronger Safety Net at Home Will Make Beijing a Better Actor Abroad

March 25, 2020

How Not to Fight a Currency War

Branding China a “Currency Manipulator” Will Only Hurt the United States

August 28, 2019

America’s Forgotten Colony

Ending Puerto Rico’s Perpetual Crisis

Antonio Weiss and Brad Setser

U.S. Deficits Are Hurting Emerging Markets

Why Argentina and Turkey Are Feeling the Pain

July 3, 2018

How Scary Is the Deficit?

Brad Setser, Nouriel Roubini, David H. Levey, and Stuart S. Brown

Response July/Aug 2005