It's been a while since last posting. The tabs... Gita Gopinath on Covid's lessons for inflation and central banking Long-Covi...

Today's closing of the tabs: Brian Albrecht on the economics of The Rings of Power . Numenor, not film subsidies. RBNZ uses spurious arg...

The browser tabs... The Internet Archive will help improve access to a lot of books currently held by the National Library . Naturally, this...

This week's column in the Dom draws on the joint RBNZ-Treasury workshop on post-Covid macroeconomic policy that preceded last week's...

Harsh stuff from Grant Wilson at the Australian Financial Review ($): Even with the RBNZ flagging macro-prudential tightening next year, via...

Paul Krugman credits the Japanese earthquake/tsunami with high current Japanese growth rates : Wait, what? Japan as star performer? What’s...

Scott Sumner's been leading the charge for NGDP targeting - the notion that reserve banks can best fulfil the joint goals of inflation r...

With this year’s Nobel having gone macro, Offsetting needs a macro post. I have been enjoying the discussion about the IS/LM model in the ...

Yes, the New Zealand dollar is high currently relative to the US dollar. This has some folks all in a tizzy. But it's not like we're...

Matt at TVHE asks what's going on with the NZ dollar relative to the Yen; the Yen appreciated substantially post earthquake. I'm ...

Matt Nolan writes in praise of foreign banks . On the surface there appears to be a lot in common with the Irish, Greek, and NZ economies. ...

Falkenblog trashes macro: I worked directly for Chief Economists at two major banks, First Interstate in the late 1980's, and KeyCorp i...

From Morning Report , first Ganesh Nana on the state of the economy followed by Westpac's chief economist Brendan O'Donovan: Nana: ....

Writes the New York Times: One day next month every student at Loyola Law School Los Angeles will awake to a higher grade point average. B...

The RBNZ rightly looks past level shifts in the price level as it has an inflation target, not a price level target. So if everyone knew th...

I'm following up on Eric's call for macro commentary on Nick Rowe's liquidity trap comparison of Canada, New Zealand and Austra...

A Canadian civil service economist writes to 2blowhards : Although I was born and raised in Ottawa, many of the friends I made in grad schoo...

William Watson highlights William R. White 's critiques of modern central banking: The argument he provides is explicitly Austrian, whi...

A week ago, the RBNZ worried a lot that the banks were shafting customers by not passing along the Reserve Bank's interest rate cuts . ...

Over the last few months I have had a chance to closely examine many of Krugman’s recent and past writings on fiscal and monetary policy. O...