Over at Alphaville , Isabella Kaminska is fretting over what seems to be a breakdown in the equation of exchange: So what’s wrong with Irv...

There have been approximately 7.2 million jobs lost--as measured by total nonfarm payrolls --in the United States since the start of the rec...

(1) William Easterly shows how imprecise global economic measures--such as global poverty rates and purchasing power parity adjustments--ca...

There is new paper by David Wheelock and Mark Wohar of the St. Louis Fed that surveys the literature on the relationship between the Treasur...

There was an interesting article this past week from Daniel Gros who reminded us that the boom-bust cycle in the U.S. housing market is not...

A number of blogs have pointed to some interesting patterns in the history of financial markets: the month of October (1929, 1987 , 1997) an...