Kevin D. Hoover, Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics. Cambridge University Press, 2011

  

Current Topics

The links below are to interesting articles on current issues in macroeconomics.  They present a variety of viewpoints that may or may not agree with the views expressed in the text: 

 

11/21/11 Signals from Unconventional Monetary Policy
11/19/11 Marathon Man: Unskilled Workers are Struggling to Keep Up with Technological Change
11/14/11 Future Recession Risks:  Update

11/12/11 Staring Into the Abyss: The Euro Crisis Might Wagke Europe Up. But

               More Likely . . . It Will Lead to Compromise and Decline

11/12/11 Exports to Mars:  Official Statistics Probably Exaggerate Global Current-

               Account Imbalances
11/7/11 What Moves the Interest Rate Term Structure?
10/3/11 Unconventional Monetary Policy: Lessons from the Past Three Years

9/28/11 Ben Bernanke Deserves a Break:  The Fed chief pulled off a sleeper

            version of QE3 despite opposition at the central bank and Congress

9/10/11 The Celestial Economy:   By 2030 China’s Economy Could Loom as

              Large as Britain’s in the 1870s or America’s in the 1970s
Fall 2011 Inflation and Debt
September 2011 Job Losses in the Great Recession

9/17/11  Prices or Jobs?  Could the Federal Reserve Lower Unemployment by

             Revamping Its Goals

8/6/11    The Simon-Ehrlich Bet Over Natural Resource Shortages Revisited
8/1/11    Does Headline Inflation Converge to Core?
July/August 2011 Measuring Inflation:  The Core is Rotten

7/28/11  Currency comparisons, to go: A beefed-up version of the Big Mac index

              suggests that the Chinese yuan is now close to its fair value against

              the dollar

7/11/11  Gauging the Impact of the Great Recession
6/20/11  TIPS Liquidity, Breakeven Inflation, and Inflation Expectations
6/13/11  Monetary Policy When One Size Does Not Fit All
6/6/11    Economics Instruction and the Brave New World of Monetary Policy

5/23/11  Household Inflation Expectations and the Price of Oil:  It's Deja Vu All

              Over Again
5/16/11  What is the Value of Bank Output?
4/11/11  The Fed's Interest Rate Risk

4/4/11    Are Large Scale Asset Purchases Fueling the Rise in Commodity Prices?