Antonio Fatas on the Global Economy

These are good days for someone who teaches macroeconomics, because it is easy to find articles that misrepresent the basic concepts we teac...

In yesterday's testimony at the U.S. Senate Ben Bernanke was accused of policies that could potentially generate high inflation. Senator...

As we wait for the results of the Italian election, Europe is heading for yet another period of uncertainty. Governments in key countries (I...

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...