Felix Salmon is one of my favorite journalists, but he routinely makes a common error: forgetting that there is such a thing as politics. T...

Over at Bloomberg, Rich Miller and Jennifer Ryan have an article that should make constructivists smile: At MIT, [Mervyn] King, 63, and t...

The title of a recent post at The New Republic  is "How the IMF Got It's Keynesian Groove Back". I don't want to pick on ...

Markets seemed to like it yesterday, not so much today. You can find news and discussion of the plan everywhere. I liked Salmon's takes ...

AFoE : To spell it out, Egypt and Belarus are both looking for around US$3 billion. Egypt gets it with an explicit deferment of structural ...

Oliver Blanchard went to a IMF conference on capital flows, and wrote up some thoughts . It's well worth reading the whole (short) post,...

Daniel Davies titles a recent post on the selection process of the new IMF chief "Taking the politics out of politics, and the interna...

Yes, that's the head of the IMF. No, it wasn't for impoverishing a poor country. It was for something lewder. Some dinner companions...

File this one under "obvious": "The likely change in government in 2011 increases the political risks," that Ireland wi...

Yesterday I posted about how the Fed has been acting as the world's central bank, and how those of us who learned from Kindleberger vie...

Just to piggy-back off of Dr. Oatley's post below . Geithner wants to cap current account surpluses or deficits at 4% of GDP. What effec...

First deputy managing director of the IMF John Lipsky : “Basel III is microprudential”, said Lipsky, and there’s very much still a need for ...

The EU is giving up some of its spots on the IMF board to emerging countries: Germany, France and Britain have their own seats on the 24-me...

Mark Copelovitch writes about Spain and the IMF, and how his own research sheds some light on these issues, in a guest post at Menzie Chinn...

The new issue of International Affairs is out , and is titled "Global economic governance in transition". That is obviously a top...

Well. The much-anticipated Euro bailout plan has been revealed , and it's impressive: just short of $1tn, $625bn of which comes from Eur...

Well. I type up a late-night blog post to give myself a temporary break from paper-writing, and wake up to find it the weekend topic du jou...

I spend more time bashing bad press work than praising good. I don't know if that's because there isn't very much good stuff, or...

Emmanuel notices that multilateral lenders-of-last-resort are popping up in Europe and Asia, and wonders: why not scrap the IMF? A European...