Antonio Fatas on the Global Economy

The new European plan to deal with the potential of sovereign default and the increasing doubts about solvency of financial institutions was...

The role that the Euro plays in the current crisis in European countries is a source of debate. Some see the Euro as the main reason why we ...

Via James Furbush I see an old cartoon (ten years, some things do not change) from Calvin and Hobbes that explains how bailouts work (click...

I am spending two days at the Boston Federal Reserve Bank for their annual conference (schedule and papers can be found here ). Chairman Ben...

As I am reading the most recent post in Greg Mankiw's Blog , I find the data he presents intriguing. He is comparing two years (2007 and...

High levels of debt by governments and households are a constraint on how fast demand can grow today. Even if the economic fundamentals (pro...

Will the US economy go through a "lost decade" like Japan went after the burst of the bubble in the mid 90s? This is a question th...