Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Economics and Politics
Moral Hazard in Congress
When $3 trillion is not enough
Who does original research?
Refinance Euro-style
Deficits and Money
Wanted to buy: $2T in safe assets
Two FT pieces by Tracy Alloway caught my eye this week: this article from Tuesday’s print edition, and this post on Alphaville today.
When the US last defaulted...
Two things seem to be taken for granted in the current debt-ceiling debate: 1. The parties will come to an agreement on the debt ceiling because 2. These United States have never defaulted and will not start now.
The government and the market
Ron Paul's Modest Proposal
A PBoC balance sheet primer
Introducing the Jazz economist
Can It Happen Again?
Was Adam Smith a communist?
Shocks
The financial and economic crises started by the fall of Lehman Borthers came as a big shock, a financial shock, an economic shock, a psychological shock, and a political shock among others.
A Cold Case
Are banks firms? (continued)
Are banks firms?
Chinese property: a money view
International money, take 1
New Economic Thinking on Greece
Shadow money, still contracting
Mr. Market's Rorschach Test
The New Fed and the Real World
These Things Take Time
Pop Archives
I was just amused with two projects by Shaun Usher: to “gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos” in his blog Letters of Note, and to present interesting letterheads in his Letterheadyblog.
Inside Economics
Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job forces us to fundamentally rethink the connections between economics and policy making.
A new K-hero
When my heart skipped a beat
Who’s the INETiest of them all?
Of history repeating…
Interview with Barry Eichengreen, any requests?
We have been talking and video interviewing people at the conference, and we’ve narrowed down a small list of questions which we try to build on and have so far talked to Kenneth Rogoff, Brad DeLong, Ha-Joon Chang, Stephen Ziliak, Philippe Aghion, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Barry Eichengreen and tomorrow we start with James Galbraith.