An integral part of macroeconomics is understanding business cycles, i.e. figuring out what drives changes in aggregate output. We have devoted the last many years trying...
Lots of interesting and thought-provoking reactions to our post yesterday on how the gains in U.S. productivity are shared. One aspect of the debate that is...
In November 1930, before anyone knew how Great the Depression would be, Charles Persons published an article in the Quarterly Journal of Economics called...
Bill McBride at calculatedriskblog.com (a must read in the economics blogosphere) has been doing some fantastic posts on the abrupt pull-back by investors in the U.S....
News this morning shows that industrial output growth in China reached a 5-year low. What lies ahead for the Chinese economy? China’s economic growth over...
Retail spending by households in January 2014 was a major disappointment, coming in well below expectations. January 2014 was also one of the coldest...
Hyun Song Shin (@HyunSongShin) of Princeton University (Atif’s colleague at the Bendheim Center for Finance) has been doing some terrific work on a potential...
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