Antonio Fatas on the Global Economy

In today's Financial Times, an article by Jeffrey Sachs presents all kinds of arguments to conclude that Keynesian economists have been...

One of the first concepts taught in any macroeconomics course is the identity that links the financial balance of the private sector, the fi...

Economic debates are many times portrayed as a fight between economists who think that demand defficiency is the main cause of economic cris...

Paul Krugman has written many blog posts downplaying the fears of a sudden increase in US government bond interest rates (what he calls the ...

The debate in the US about how to deal with the "fiscal cliff" has produced a counterproposal by the Republicans on how to avert a...

The New York Times presents a comparison of average tax rates since 1980 to make the argument that most taxpayers in the US face lower taxe...

Via Greg Mankiw I read a response to the argument by Peter Diamond and Emmanuel Saez that the top marginal tax rate in the US should be ra...