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Mario Draghi, the new ECB president has started his presidency with an interest rate cut. Considering average EMU inflation being higher than the target “below but close 2%”, what is the policy ECB having now? Promoting growth at the cost … Continue reading →

Congratulations to this year’s winners of Nobel prize in economics! http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/ I’m happy to see that the area of my research is being awarded with such a high prize.

http://www.apple.com http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-05/steve-jobs-who-built-most-valuable-technology-company-passes-away-at-56.html

http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-16/end-the-fed-s-dual-mandate-and-focus-on-prices-john-b-taylor.html Sent from my iPod

by Paul De Grauwe at http://www.voxeu.org http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/6884

by Anne Sibert you can read on voxeu.org http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/6980

Today is one of those great days you want to talk about, scream out loud and share with the rest of the world. I am installing Xubuntu and saying goodbye to Windows, a system that made me scream even louder … Continue reading →

The Annual Economic Symposium takes place 25-27 August, 2011 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. This is the most fragile and mind-boosting place right now because it gathers many central bank leaders and plenty of important minds in the economic world. Markets … Continue reading →

An interesting piece of news from Bloomberg: Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) — “Rutgers University forgave $100,000 of the football coach’s interest-free home loan last year. The women’s basketball coach got monthly golf and car allowances. Both collected bonuses without winning a … Continue reading →

will take place in Miami. It is a perfect occasion to organize the World Meeting of European Central Punk, too. As Johnny Wasterwave pointed out, we can connect these two meetings of research and punk together. For those interested I … Continue reading →