Antonio Fatas on the Global Economy

Since the mid 80's (and with the exception of a small pause in the early 90's) the U.S. has run a current account deficit, which mea...

The IMF released today their semiannual Global Financial Stability Report . In the report they estimate the potential loses of financial ins...

Here is an interesting chart from the March 2009 interim report of the OECD World Economic Outlook . It calculates the size of the fiscal de...

In an interview last week, Larry Summers said that "there are risks of both deflation and inflation", so anything is possible... I...

One of the most dramatic indicators of the financial crisis has been the collapse of the "money multiplier". The money multiplier ...

If forecasting in normal times can already be difficult, doing so during times when the phase of the cycle is changing becomes a real challe...