Antonio Fatas on the Global Economy

Claudio Borio (BIS) and Piti Disyatat write about the dangers of low interest rates at VoxEU . Using an argument that has been put forward m...

Last week the ECB announced new monetary policy actions to help restore growth in the Euro area and bring inflation closer to its 2% target....

In a recent post Paul Krugman looks at the dismal performance of US labor markets over the last decade. To make his point, he compares the ...

For the last months the press conferences of Mario Draghi at the ECB have felt very repetitive. The argument has always been the same: infla...

A quick chart-of-the-day post motivated by some articles I was reading today about differences in country performances during the global fin...

Increases in stock prices over the last years combined with bond prices that remain high (yields are low) have raised the possibility of mis...

Via Mark Thoma I read an interesting article about how the mainstream economics curriculum needs to be revamped  ( Wren-Lewis also has som...