Connecting the Academic and Policy Worlds: Interview with James Bullard

tháng 11 25, 2013 No comments

An interview by Economic Dynamics with James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (source).EconomicDynamics Interviews James Bullard on policy and the academic worldJames Bullard is President and...

Flatlining in the UK

tháng 11 19, 2013 No comments

How bad is the UK recovery dynamic? Bottomed out -- let's hope so! Can things get any worse?Here's what real (inflation adjusted) GDP per capita looks like for the U.K. (1992:1 - 2013:2)... Because the real GDP is flat,...

Andrew Huszar: Confessions of a Quantitative Easer

tháng 11 14, 2013 No comments

Former Fed employee, Andrew Huszar, lays into the Fed here: Confessions of a Quantitative Easer. His opening salvo is a doozy:I can only say: I'm sorry, America. As a former Federal Reserve official, I was responsible...

QE in Japan: Past and Present

tháng 11 11, 2013 No comments

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo AbeOne of PM Shizo Abe's "three arrows" of economic stimulus entails a massive "monetary stimulus" designed to slay Japan's persistently moderate deflation.This is the second time in the last...