Antonio Fatas on the Global Economy

GDP growth during the last quarter of 2012 turned negative in the US (-0.1%) and this came as a surprise to many.  Looking at the different ...

Noah Smith has a great blog post on the obsession with gold as a store of value or as an investment strategy. I fully share his views on go...

Regularly The Wall Street Journal writes an opinion article about the failure of the European economic model. A bloated welfare state, high ...

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 ...