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 | 167

Europe Can’t Move Fast Enough to Halt Crisis

Nov 25, 2011| 

Today the leaders of Germany, France, and Italy came together, offering a commitment to work toward new fiscal rules in Europe while keeping a leash on the European... Read »

And the Global Economic Saga Continues

Nov 23, 2011| 

The last week has been a non-stop flood of news.  And, quite honestly, none of it is encouraging.  I imagine the sole exception to that rule is the relatively... Read »

Fed Watch: Games of Chicken

Nov 16, 2011| 

The Eurozone is stuck on a path that leads to a very nasty equilibrium.  From the Financial Times: In a day that euro-era records tumbled, Italian yields moved... Read »

Fed Watch: Endgame Approaching

Nov 10, 2011| 

Wall Street is again taking Europe seriously, at least for the moment.  Today was unpleasant.  The most important news of the day is that Germany and France are... Read »

Wall Street Ignoring Europe?

Nov 9, 2011| 

Ryan Avent is puzzled. He says so: I have to say, I’m puzzled. Recent developments in the euro zone seem incredibly negative to me. The probability of a reasonably... Read »

Widespread Lack of Conviction

Oct 12, 2011| 

Menzie Chinn at Econbrowser looks at the OECD data and concludes the world is close to stall speed. Alcoa is an early victim, as the impact of the European financial... Read »

A Boom in 2013?

Oct 11, 2011| 

While searching through market commentary, I came across these remarks, via Bloomberg: “We are focusing on major U.S. equities now, looking past the European stock... Read »

Don’t Let Monetary Policy Off The Hook

Oct 6, 2011| 

Re-reading Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s latest testimony to Congress left me increasingly puzzled by his conclusion: Monetary policy can be a powerful... Read »

The Fed Drops the Ball

Oct 5, 2011| 

By mid-summer it was evident the recovery was in jeopardy, that the slowdown in economic activity could not be entirely explained by temporary factors, that unemployment... Read »

Too Late for the Unemployed?

Oct 1, 2011| 

The debate between cyclical and structural unemployment arose last year.  At this point, it looks like Federal Reserve policymakers increasingly favor the structural... Read »

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