122 Results for:

March 9, 2007

Monetary Policy
Check out Menzie Chinn’s graph over at Econbrowser

In his most recent post, Menzie Chinn plots actual yields on ten-year benchmark Treasury bonds v. the rates predicted by an econometric model based on a series of relatively standard variables (the i…

March 19, 2007

China
A strange way to go about rebalancing China’s economy…

China now exports more than it imports – a lot more.   Even most American economist are starting to recognize that the “China runs a surplus with the US but its overall trade is balanced” argument is…

December 7, 2005

Economics
Gone (ice) fishing …

I will be away from my desk for the next week or so on a business trip.  I'll probably post a bit, modern communications and all.  But I doubt I'll post every day.    I suspect that a couple of the c…

June 8, 2008

Financial Markets
Ken Rogoff is also confused by the US policy towards dollar pegs

It is nice to be in good company. Ken Rogoff is as confused by US policy toward dollar pegs as I am. Rogoff: Does it make sense for the United States Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, to be tourin…

August 3, 2006

China
Trade politics could get nasty fast

The US economy looks to be slowing.   Job creation (and wage growth; also see Leonhardt in the New York Times) wasn’t that impressive even when the economy was growing strongly.   Like many, I was st…