Scott Sumner : My view (and that of many other market monetarists) is that the Bank of Japan acted as if it didn’t want inflation, tighte...

First off, apologies for the light posting. A confluence of events have prohibited more activity here. I hope to get going more regularly. ...

Greg Ip has a nice post at Free Exchange highlighting the similarities between Greece today and Argentina around the turn of the millenium....

Henry Farrell has written a very useful post describing the eurozone crisis in terms of Schelling's conception of brinksmanship as a ne...

The Journal of Peace Research has a special issue on the security implications of climate change. The issue can be found here , and is open...

At the risk of redundancy, I'm wading back into the discussion of China's relative power growth vis-a-vis the U.S. that continues to...

One thing that we hear a lot is that global economic performance increasingly depends on the BRICSAM countries, particularly China which is ...

Dan Drezner has a post on whether we are now at a focal point that will discredit the idea of expansionary austerity: The Greek sovereign...

Major U.S. banks have about $80bn in exposure to troubled European sovereigns, about $30bn of which is protected via CDS. Think $50-80bn is...