Physicist, philosopher, ex-concert pianist, corporate financier, freelance journalist, traveler, economist, bond girl.

Recent Blog Posts by Models & Agents

• Blunt or Blunter? Emerging Markets (Try to) Return in Kind December 20th, 2010
• Why the Tax ‘Compromise’ Is a Very Dumb Idea December 13th, 2010
• Global Imbalances and the War of Attrition December 6th, 2010
• Cross-Border Deleveraging and the Shifts in Europe’s Bargaining Game November 29th, 2010
• Can There Be Such a Thing as an “Orderly” Restructuring? November 22nd, 2010
• The ‘Misoverestimated’ Surpluses and the Tax-Cuts Debate November 8th, 2010
• What Do the Fed’s Policy and Poker Have in Common? October 28th, 2010
• Ben’s New Rabbit: Inflation Expectations October 18th, 2010
• QE and Its Unintended Consequences October 4th, 2010
• Leaving the Plaza Accord Behind September 27th, 2010
• QE the Sequel: Putting Ben’s Money Where His Mouth Is September 21st, 2010
• Inequality and Growth, Revisited September 13th, 2010
• On the Demand Side and the Supply Side: The Stimulus Debate September 7th, 2010
• Can This Be for Real? May 24th, 2010
• An Ode to Crisis Economics May 17th, 2010
• The “E” and the “M” of the EMU May 10th, 2010
• Giving Reform a Chance May 3rd, 2010
• China Can Avoid Becoming Japan April 26th, 2010
• Europe’s Bazooka Is Not Enough April 12th, 2010
• LSAPs: A Tale of Overkill April 8th, 2010
• Ludicrous Claims About the Renminbi March 22nd, 2010
• The End of Gradualism? March 15th, 2010
• Vola-geddon March 9th, 2010
• Stopping the Leakages in China February 22nd, 2010
• The Good, the Bad and the Irrelevant January 26th, 2010
• Bringing Stability to the Stability and Growth Pact January 19th, 2010
• The Letter and the Spirit of Monetary Policy January 11th, 2010
• Ben and his Avatar December 21st, 2009
• Greece Should Seek a Precautionary Standby…Now! December 14th, 2009
• Monetary Policy Make-over July 27th, 2009
• Great Walls of Cash July 13th, 2009
• Greenspan Speaks June 30th, 2009
• Giving Up the Dollar Addiction June 22nd, 2009
• What’s good for Goldman Sachs… June 16th, 2009
• Time to ditch the PPIP May 19th, 2009
• The Resilience (?) of the American Consumer May 15th, 2009
• Dollar Faithfuls May 11th, 2009
• Between the Lines April 30th, 2009
• Ben’s Shakespearean dilemma April 21st, 2009
• China’s latest thought experiment… April 13th, 2009
• Sayonara Japan, Hello America! April 7th, 2009
• The missing link April 1st, 2009
• Alan Greenspan: “I screwed up!” April 1st, 2009
• Because We Can! March 22nd, 2009
• A Nobel-prize winner adrift March 18th, 2009
• Back to square one March 16th, 2009
• Going around in circles on the toxic assets March 8th, 2009
• The curious art of stress testing March 3rd, 2009
• Digesting the N-word February 23rd, 2009
• Playing the bankers’ advocate… February 18th, 2009
• Saving the Fed from itself February 5th, 2009
• Messing around with credit January 31st, 2009
• A stimulus we can believe in January 22nd, 2009
• Obamas bang for the buck January 13th, 2009
• The barking swan December 15th, 2008
• Ben’s still dancing… December 9th, 2008
• Bring it on November 28th, 2008
• The IMF as Global Fed October 27th, 2008
• Free markets ain’t perfect! October 22nd, 2008
• The dollar in pictures October 19th, 2008
• Backdoor Bailout October 9th, 2008
• Ask what you can do for your country September 28th, 2008
• We are all Keynesians now September 10th, 2008
• Once upon a time in Jackson Hole September 2nd, 2008
• Mom, free-market and apple-pie September 1st, 2008
• The dollar’s decathlon August 21st, 2008
• First-come first-served July 22nd, 2008
• Who’s afraid of GSEs? July 15th, 2008
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place July 8th, 2008
• Pass-through Ails June 24th, 2008
• Dissecting the Oil-Dollar Affair June 17th, 2008
• Intervention bluffs June 10th, 2008
• Party TIPS June 5th, 2008
• Consumer Squeeze June 4th, 2008
• FX Swaps Misbehaving May 29th, 2008
• Alpha, Beta Sigma: Understanding the Greeks May 24th, 2008