Some Unpleasant Arithmetic

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Some Unpleasant Arithmetic
Some Unpleasant Arithmetic
Macro

Macro

I work in macroeconomics. Argentina is the one country where macroeconomics reigns supreme. So here’s what I’ve written about macro:

  • The Quantity Theory of Money

  • Liberation Day 2025

  • Is the US going to lose its exorbitant privilege?

  • China’s economic troubles

  • The 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics

  • What is Elon Musk’s economic ideology?

  • Trump’s tariffs

  • Do bigger booms result in deeper busts? (topic so nice I did it twice)

  • The 2024 Recession pseudo-panic

  • Is Bolivia going to have a currency crisis?

  • Silicon Valley Bank

  • What is inflation targeting?

  • What is Nominal GDP Targeting?

  • Where did the Phillips Curve go?

  • Was a recession necessary for the US?

  • Should the Fed be automated away?

  • What is a recession?

  • What’s Japan’s deal?

  • Russia’s balance of payments crisis

  • The Liz Truss recession

  • The stablecoin crisis

  • How does cryptocurrency work?

  • Soft vs hard landing (mid 2023)

  • Why didn’t Mauricio Macri’s stabilization program work?

  • Did corporate greed cause inflation?

  • Collab with Joey Politano: Argentina’s 2001 crisis (English version)

  • Bidenflation and the Powell Shock: part 1 and part 2

  • Monetary neutrality

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