Tim Duy

Tim Duy is the Director of Undergraduate Studies of the Department of Economics at the University of Oregon and the Director of the Oregon Economic Forum.

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Tim Duy's Latest Articles | 187

Fed Watch: Closer to Colliding

May 18, 2012| 

Each passing day brings the runaways trains closer to collision. The European strategy to scare the Greek people into voting for pro-austerity parties was always... Read »

Europe Overnight

May 17, 2012| 

European policymakers are trying to sway the vote in Greece.  From the Financial Times: Senior European leaders are attempting to turn Greece’s repeat national... Read »

Greece is Running Out of Time

May 16, 2012| 

I have repeatedly described myself as a Euroskeptic.  The current combination of politics and economics looks likely to at worst doom the Euro to failure, at best... Read »

Hopeful Signs From Europe?

May 9, 2012| 

While I suspect this is a case of too little, too late, it is increasingly evident that European policymakers on some level realize the errors of their ways.  From... Read »

Greece, Again

May 8, 2012| 

It is shaping up to be another long, hot summer, and not just because of global warning.  As has been widely noted, the austerity backlash in Europe began in earnest... Read »

What Should Europe Do?

Apr 30, 2012| 

Kantoos Economics offers another take on the appropriate European policy response.  He rejects the standard line of thinking: One proposed solution is for Germany... Read »

Bernanke’s Shift

Apr 27, 2012| 

There has been a fierce counterattack to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s assertion that he is indeed the same Professor Bernanke that advised the Bank... Read »

Distributional Impacts of Monetary Policy

Apr 23, 2012| 

Dean Baker, responding to this Wall Street Journal article, sees an opportunity to make us aware on the distributional impacts of monetary choices.  Specifically,... Read »

Initial Claims Up – Time to Worry?

Apr 19, 2012| 

From Bloomberg: Jobless claims fell by 2,000 to 386,000 in the week ended April 14 from a revised 388,000 the prior period that was higher than initially estimated,... Read »

Treasury TIC Data for February ’12

Apr 17, 2012| 

The US Treasury released the February TIC data.  It is worth pointing out the methodolgical change in the data construction in recent months.  Previously, the... Read »

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