The Slack Wire

Felix Salmon is my favorite business blogger -- super smart, cosmopolitan and impressively unimpressed by the Masters of the Universe he sp...

More posts on Greece, coming right up. But first I want to revisit the relationship between finance and nonfinancial business in the US. M...

Most days, I'm a big fan of Paul Krugman's columns. Unlike his economics, which makes a few too many curtsies to orthodoxy, his po...

So the ECB's agenda is pain. What about our agenda? One positive thing about the crisis in Europe is that, unlike many earlier occas...

Krugman is puzzled  by the European Central Bank: I’ve been hearing various attempts to explain the ECB’s utterly bizarre refusal to cut i...

I don't know what other peoples' experience is, blogging, but me, I find myself thinking about far more posts than I ever manage to ...

When I first started reading blogs a decade ago (I'm pretty sure the first blogpost I ever read was one of these  Eschaton posts  on Tre...

Brad DeLong, May 25 : WHAT ARE THE CORE COMPETENCES OF HIGH FINANCE?  The core competences of high finance are supposed to be (a) assess...

In comments to yesterday's post on exchange rates and European trade imbalances, paine (the e. e. cummings of the econosphere) says, ...

The Euro crisis. One thing sensible people agree on is that the crisis has little or nothing to do with fiscal deficits  (government borrowi...