Friday, 4 September 2015

Letter wars, and how policy is made

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This one is UK focused, although similar points may apply elsewhere First there was the letter in the Guardian written by economis...
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Thursday, 3 September 2015

Spain, and how the Eurozone has to get real about countercyclical policy

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Matthew Klein has a good account of how Spain’s macroeconomic fortunes are improving, but only from a very bad place. I’m not that knowle...
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Wednesday, 2 September 2015

Corbyn, QE and financial interests

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Although this uses UK events as a spur, the point about QE is universal Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn has shown some flexib...
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Sunday, 30 August 2015

Going backwards on fiscal rules

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I was preoccupied when it first came out, but I wanted to note the excellent discussion by Jonathan Portes of the government’s new fiscal...
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Thursday, 27 August 2015

The day macroeconomics changed

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It is of course ludicrous, but who cares. The day of the Boston Fed conference in 1978 is fast taking on a symbolic significance. It is the...
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Tuesday, 25 August 2015

A sense of identity

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Denis Snower has a provocative (at least for me) piece in Süddeutsche Zeitung in which he writes as follows: “When the American economis...
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Sunday, 23 August 2015

Economic credibility

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The UK’s Labour leadership election has become a two horse race: Jeremy Corbyn on the left, versus ABC. I must admit that it took me a bit ...
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