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Jean Pisani-Ferry, currently advising the French government and former director of Bruegel (the Brussels-based economic think tank) has written a heartfelt plea for more stability in the Commission’s estimates of…
Photo Credit: Tulane Public Relations || James Carville wants to be “reincarnated” as the bond market, to scare everyone — boo!I was reading this article at Reuters, and musing at…
That's UPSOGF for short.Gonna throw my daughter off the Leaning Tower of Pizza? I got three words for you and the first one isn't "I".
Last month, the global report card concluded that world economic activity was expanding at a roughly constant growth rate, with a slowdown in the US and China being offset by…
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: What does Hillary stand for? Fly Title: Growth in America Rubric: Unless wages grow, America’s economic blip could become a trend Location: ROYERSFORD, PENNSYLVANIA…
As Greece makes its payment to the IMF we hear that the country did not seek any financial aid from Russia. And while it's solved the immediate crisis, the Greek…
Slow to be getting to this, but I have to come back to such a major development. Good Jobs First, a national non-profit best known for its work on state…
Some macro textbooks (not all) are a bit like extensively modified code. You can see the structure of the original code, even after extensive software development. This can mean that,…
I write about this every now and then, because human fertility is falling faster then most demographers expect. Using the CIA Factbook for data, the present total fertility rate for…
https://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2015/02/what-matters-more-productivity-slowdown.html
The equilibrium real interest rate continues to lie at the heart of discussions about economic policy in the US and elsewhere. Ben Bernanke has written that the equilibrium rate, and…
The Loonie has soared and sunk in a loopy FX session dominated by US dollar moves vs the majors.
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: What does Hillary stand for? Fly Title: Economic policy in Japan Rubric: The government of Shinzo Abe is increasingly at odds with the central…
Paul Krugman writes about GE’s announcement to get out of the finance business. Why are they getting out? Financial reform from the Dodd-Frank legislation that includes “greater oversight, higher capital…
THIS week our correspondents discuss the latest developments in Greece's euro zone bail-out negotiations and Janet Yellen's testimony to Congress Comment Expiry Date: Wed, 2015-03-11 <div class="og_rss_groups"></div>
Yes I am playing with FRED. My thoughts about the graph after the jump. First isn’t that a long name for a time series ? Profit measurement is controversial. Non-accountants…
When Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen gives evidence to the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday, she has an opportunity to speak above the heads of the financial markets to Congress…
When the Federal Reserve starts to raise US interest rates later this year, there will be a major shift in the global monetary regime. Although San Francisco Fed President John…
I am trying to understand what, if anything, was agreed by Greece and the rest of the EU yesterday. I’m not sure they even agreed to kick the can down…
UK Only Article: standard article Fly Title: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Rubric: America's mortgage-insurance giants are making bigger profits than before the crisis Byline: C.R. & T.E. Location: LONDON…