Economics

Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: In light of Obama advisor Larry Summers’ recent speech on the...

You might have missed it yesterday, but during the second meeting of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, IMF Director of...

The OECD (the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Paris-based think tank for the 31 richest countries) released its twice-a...

Larry Summers gave a very interesting and thoughtful talk in Washington recently (May 24). But it was delivered in High Oracular Econospeak, so many...

Princeton's Alan Blinder says the bond market vigilantes are back; in Europe for now, but they'll be coming here soon. The bond vigilantes, for those...

Throughout the week, U.S. financial markets continued to be dominated by a global market “flight to quality” in response to perceived EU policy...

U.S. markets continued to be dominated this week by the continuing roller coaster ride from the Greek (and eurozone) debt crisis. More positive U.S...

It wasn’t enough that we had a lot of impressive economic news this week (including today’s solidly positive employment numbers – even though...

As of mid-day Friday, April 30, the government bond market was on track to have a good week, with prices up (and therefore yields down, because they...

On April 30, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its first estimate of first quarter real GDP. Typically, the first estimate is revised a lot in...

At yesterday's Peter G. Peterson Foundation Fiscal Summit, the Announcement Effect Club saw its membership bump up, yet again. During the second panel...

As of mid-day Friday, April 23, the yield curve looked steeper for the week (that is, interest rates rose on Treasury instruments at the longer end of...