Last week, I wrote this : We should also expand the role and capabilities of the IMF, just in case it becomes necessary to bailout a fairly ...

Whew! And I thought the World Economic Forum would be boring this year. Instead, in separate appearances today, Russian President Puppetma...

For some reason Pravda , the former mouthpiece of the Soviet Union (now nationalist tabloid hack rag), decided to outright steal one of my ...

I realized this a.m. that I should have titled this post, "The Bigger Picture". This graph plots the real exchange rate on a trade...

Left vertical axis: total U.S. exports, seasonally adjusted, in millions USD (source: BEA) Right vertical axis: value of U.S. dollar vs. a b...

Update: Link to the IMF WEO fixed. Emmanuel -across-the-pond and my co-blogger Will have been discussing the dollar-renminbi exchange rate ...

William Easterly, development economist extraordinaire, has started a new blog . Self-recommending of course, but but from the looks of the ...

News agencies are reporting that the Icelandic ruling coalition resigned on Sunday, thus incapacitating the government, "three months ...

Teutonic Knight, a commenter at Seeking Alpha (where some IPE at UNC posts are syndicated) asks a very good question apropos of this post ...

This year's World Economic Forum meetings in Davos, Switzerland will be more somber than in recent years : Not long ago, at the annual g...