There is much excited talk in the press these days about the rise in ten-year yields to 1.5 percent and the rise to 2 percent for the breakeven inflation rates expressed when we comparing Treasury nominal and TIPS yields. The bond vigilantes are back! Another Great Inflation around the corner!
Author: Jonathan Wright
Inside Baseball
Seasonal adjustment is one of the more obscure potential casualties of the pandemic recession. A well known problem with seasonal adjustment is that an outlier observation will lead the seasonal adjustment process to shift its belief about what is normal for that month. In cases like the coronavirus recession, this is undesirable because the unusual […]
538 survey of macroeconomists
The 538 webpage, part of ABC news and originally set up by Nate Silver, has just done a survey of academic macroeconomic forecasters about the coronavirus recession. Allan Timmermann at UC San Diego and I helped them with this and the results were released this afternoon. The results point to a deep recession with a […]
Budget Projections, Interest Rate Assumptions, and Preposterous Assertions
Since early 2014, we’ve been lamenting the fact that CBO has persisted in telling the same Armageddon budget story as it was telling 2009-2012, despite the fact that the deficit picture had dramatically improved. We mused aloud that if real debt problems did reappear, they might regret having spent several years crying wolf. If we […]
2014: The Year of the Hawk
Fed Chairman Bernanke commented on the monetary policy outlook at a speech at the NBER a couple of weeks ago, and then again in Congressional Testimony. He gave a clear signal that the current voting members of the FOMC plan to maintain a highly accommodative overall stance of monetary policy for some time. These remarks […]
CFE featured in JHU magazine
The spring 2013 issue of the JHU magazine contains an interview with Lou Maccini and Chuck Clarvit about the establishment of the CFE in 2007.
Is your online reputation hurting your chances of securing the internship or job of your dreams?
The JHU Career Center invites you to join Charles Clarvit ’78, University Trustee and CEO of Vinci Partners-US and Patrick Ambron, Co-founder & CEO, BrandYourself.com As they share how to monitor, optimize, and protect your online reputation through BrandYourself.com. Patrick will also discuss developing and launching BrandYourself from his firsthand experience as an entrepreneur. While this […]
Another Minsky Moment?
Bloomberg Magazine asked CFE Co-Director Bob Barbera if the current low level of the VIX and high hedge fund leverage meant that the economy was on the brink of another Minsky moment. Here is his reply. The late economist Hyman Minsky brilliantly documented that attitudes toward risk taking evolve in a predictable pattern over the […]
Barbera Remarks at Conference on Financial Market Instability
CFE co-director Bob Barbera spoke at the Hyman Minsky Conference on Financial Market Instability in Berlin on November 27 and 28. Here is a link to the conference program. http://www.levyinstitute.org/conferences/berlin2012/ and here is the text of Bob’s remarks Bob Barbera Remarks
September Jobs Data
CFE co-director Bob Barbera writes a piece digging into the sharp rise in employment in the September employment survey: Much Ado About Not Much
A Day Late and a Euro Short
Discussion by CFE co-directors Bob Barbera and Jonathan Wright with Olivier Jeanne and Nicolas Jabko on the unfolding situation in Europe, featured in the JHU Online Arts and Sciences magazine. http://krieger2.jhu.edu/magazine/2012/07/a-day-late-and-a-euro-short/
Commentary on the Euro Crisis
The crisis in Europe has been escalating for three years and has now turned into a bank run. Europe is facing the possibility of a currency breakup and/or entering into a continent-wide Depression. European institutions are in a dangerous stalemate and till now have consistently been way behind the curve. Bob Barbera and Jonathan Wright, co-directors of CFE, take to the electronic airwaves in this piece, offering their expertise, keen insights, and unconventional wisdom in helping us understand the financial crisis in Europe.