RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Find out what our senior staff and colleagues have to say about current economic news, financial developments, regional and country issues, and public policy.

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RealTime Economic Issues Watch

What Ten Million Simulations Tell Us about President Trump's Chances of Achieving 3-Percent Economic Growth

Jason Furman (PIIE)

May 23, 2017
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Macron's Victory Signals Reform in France and a Stronger Europe

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard (PIIE)
May 8, 2017
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Theresa May’s Irresistible Election Gamble

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard (PIIE)

April 19, 2017
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

On the Need for (At Least) Five Classes of Macro Models

Olivier Blanchard (PIIE)

April 10, 2017
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

An Opportunity to Streamline the European Union’s Financial Regulatory Architecture

Dirk Schoenmaker (Bruegel and Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Nicolas Véron (PIIE)

April 10, 2017
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Lesson Learned (Again) from Macroeconomic Populism in Venezuela

Monica de Bolle (PIIE)
April 5, 2017
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Greece Needs More Official Debt Relief—But How Much and at What Price?

Jeromin Zettelmeyer (PIIE)

April 4, 2017
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Curbing the Growth of US International Debt

Joseph E. Gagnon (PIIE)

March 29, 2017
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

The Unsustainable Trajectory of US International Debt

Joseph E. Gagnon (PIIE)

March 29, 2017
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Big Stumbling Blocks for Business Tax Reform

Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE) and Zhiyao (Lucy) Lu (PIIE)
March 28, 2017