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The Messenger Wore A Skirt

…ignoring the advice of Iris Mack at Harvard University, by consulting to D.E. Shaw (hedge fund) making ~$5.2 million as the financial engineer’s engineer following a model Buffet called Financial

The Return of Global Imbalances?

…by capital flows to the U.S. These reflected the U.S. position as the financial hegemon, with the most liquid financial markets. Moreover, the U.S. provided something of great value: safe…

The IMF and the Coronavirus

…asset values and the lack of liquidity in financial markets exposed the fragility of the financial sector. While the central banks of the advanced economies coordinated their responses, the IMF…

An Opinion II

…considers the problem to have been leaving out the financial sector. Since then macroeconomists have concentrated on adding financial frictions. I do not agree that this was the only fatal…