Slok on QE, and a great paper Most Complete From Sopintar

DB's Torsten Sl�k writes in his regular email analysis: Yesterday I participated in the annual US Monetary Policy Forum here in Manhat...

Floating rates? Most Complete From Sopintar

I was interested to read in the Financial Times , "Iceland weighs plan to peg krona to another currency": Iceland�s finance mini...

Long Run Lira? Most Complete From Sopintar

Luigi Zingales inaugurated a series of essays in Il Sole 24 Ore , an Italian newspaper, on whether Italy should stay in or get out of the E...

Douthat and Feldstein on Euro Most Complete From Sopintar

In case you missed it, this Sunday featured a creditable effort by the NY Times to look out of the groundhog hole. You have likely followed ...

Argentina update and IMF Most Complete From Sopintar

From Alejandro Rodriguez, my correspondent from t he last post We are ***! People are withdrawing funds from fixed income mututal funds (w...

A Revised Radical Most Complete From Sopintar

A revised draft of "Michelson-Morley, Fisher, and Occam" is now on my webpage  (Yes, new title.) This paper argues that the long...

Groundhog day in Argentina Most Complete From Sopintar

My friend and colleague Alejandro Rodriguez, director of the Department of Economics at CEMA in Buenos Aires, wrote me a few emails that Arg...

Basecoin Most Complete From Sopintar

Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin have to solve two and a half important problems if they are to become currencies: 1) Unstable values 2) High t...