David Beckworth

Affiliation: Texas State University

David Beckworth is an assistant professor of economics at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.

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David Beckworth's Latest Articles | 37

The Correct Money Supply Measure for This Crisis

Mar 17, 2010| 

Mark Thoma points us to Gary Gorton’s testimony for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission where, among other things, Gorton notes that an accurate measure... Read »

Revenge of the Balance Sheets

Feb 26, 2010| 

The U.S. economic crisis has been called by some observers as a balance sheet recession given the deterioration of the balance sheets in the banking system and the... Read »

More on the Eurozone Challenges

Feb 15, 2010| 

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reports on the latest challenge in the Greek bailout: The EU has issued a political pledge to rescue Greece – and by precedent, all Club... Read »

The Fed’s Exit Strategy

Feb 11, 2010| 

So Ben Bernanke confirmed that the Fed may have to turn to interest paid on excess reserves as its main policy tool rather than targeting the federal funds rate.... Read »

The Eurozone Problem in One Picture

Feb 11, 2010| 

Stephanie Flanders directs us to to this picture from HSBC which nicely summarizes the problems the Euro has created for Greece over the past decade. It is striking... Read »

Eurozone Periphery and the Euro

Feb 10, 2010| 

After reading Paul Krugman’s anatomy of a Euromess, I thought I would look take a quick look at the Eurozone countries through the prism of the optimal currency... Read »

Janet Yellen: The Fed is a Monetary Superpower

Feb 9, 2010| 1

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Janet Yellen makes the case for the Fed as a monetary superpower, at least in Asia: For all practical purposes, Hong... Read »

The Eurozne: Deja Vu Argentina 2001 & Other Thoughts

Feb 8, 2010| 2

The sovereign debt problems in the Eurozone periphery and the implications of this development for the future of the currency union attracted a lot of attention... Read »

Job Numbers Back to 2004 Levels

Jan 24, 2010| 

There have been approximately 7.2 million jobs lost–as measured by total nonfarm payrolls–in the United States since the start of the recession in December... Read »

Academic vs. Wall Street Economists

Jan 14, 2010| 1

The WSJ recently asked a number of economists whether they thought the Fed’s low interest rates in the early-to-mid 2000s were an important contributor to... Read »