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’Day 475 in the Celebrity Economist house
Day 475 in the Big Economist House.
10:19 am
Niall Ferguson, Ken Rogoff and Paul Krugman are in the kitchen.
Yesterday, housemates were punished for discussing too many conflicting economic solutions in the FT and the New York Times.
[Wilmot on AV] No Fuel For Inflation…
So far at least.
Taking our cue from Hayek we recently had a shot at measuring “shadow money” in the US — the counterpart of the credit created through the shadow banking system. In today’s securitised system the repo market helps make longer term debt securities supremely liquid — for a certain haircut they can be turned into cash at a moments notice.
Who’s afraid of the US federal budget?
Never one to shy away from a good fiscal debate, Niall Ferguson, financial history professor at Harvard, sounds the alarm on the Obama administration’s looming federal deficit problem in a Tuesday FT comment piece.
Annals of unlikely financial forecasters, summer reading edition
Back in 2006 BBC petrol-head pundit Jeremy Clarkson wrote a book called And Another Thing: Vol. two: The World According to Clarkson. In it he refers to the work of Niall Ferguson, the writings of whom he appears very much inspired by.
Krugman: ‘Back at you, Ferguson’
The delightful tit-for-tat that is currently raging between Paul Krugman and Niall Ferguson across the financial blogosphere delivered a fresh installment over the weekend.
This time round it was the Princeton economist’s turn to respond to Ferguson via his New York times blog,
Niall Ferguson fights back
There have been economic spats before (Rogoff versus Stiglitz comes to mind), but a new one is definitely brewing in the shape of the tit-for-tat currently raging between Harvard’s Niall Ferguson and Princetonian Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman,