Monthly Archives: September 2016

The discussion on Paul Romer's "The Trouble with Macroeconomics" continues in the blogosphere, and Simon Wren -Lewis's "Paul Romer on macroeconomics" is one of the Must-Reads. In his comments, Wren-Lewis said that Romer's view is extremely valuable. He agrees with Romer that macroeconomists obsessed with...

In his latest Brookings blog post "Modifying the Fed’s policy framework: Does a higher inflation target beat negative interest rates?", Ben Bernanke compares two policy tools central banks can use to stimulate the economy - the hotly discussed idea of Raising Inflation Target and...