Tim Duy
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Fed Watch: Closer to Colliding
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
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
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?
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
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?
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
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
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?
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
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 »






