In case you missed it, Ben Bernanke came out swinging at the liquidity addicts of the world in his speech Friday . To the Jim Cramers of t...

During my brief stint at Treasury John Taylor was my boss. Between 2001 and 2005 he was the undersecretary for international affairs at Trea...

Between 2003 and 2004 I worked as an international economist with the U.S. Department of Treasury. While there, I had the privilege of meeti...

In a previous posting I claimed that that one of the reasons for current financial quagmire is that the Federal Reserve's response to t...

A new paper by Glenn Rudebusch and John Williams shows that the yield curve spread is a better predictor of recessions than are professional...

Barry Ritholtz at the Big Picture directs us to an article in the NY Times by James Grant of Grant's Interest Rate Observer . Many exce...

For those readers who need a primer on the global economic imbalances debate see my article, " A World Out of Balance: How A Spending A...