Rebecca works as a macroeconomist and fixed income portfolio manager.

Before working in finance and fixed income portfolio management, Rebecca was an academic with fields of expertise in international finance and macroeconomics. She received her Ph.D. in 2004 and took a position as an assistant professor at a West Coast state university. Ultimately, she favored finance and research over teaching, taking her career into the private sector.

In her spare time, Rebecca has offered regular commentary on all global macroeconomic issues since 2007 on her weblog, News N Economics. Recently, she renamed the weblog The Wilder View. Her current focus centers on the economics of the euro area and the sovereign debt crisis. Historically, though, she has tackled other topics in international macroeconomics, including theses on emerging market economies and US monetary policy.

The thoughts, opinions, and views expressed on The Wilder View are Rebecca's and not of her employer.

Recent Blog Posts by Rebecca Wilder

• Did You Know? S&P PIIGS Ratings Edition October 11th, 2012
• Euro Area Budget? More on Tax Rates October 5th, 2012
• Euro area periphery countries seeing improved monetary policy transmission mechanism October 4th, 2012
• Follow-Up: Who Has the Most Debt in the US? October 3rd, 2012
• Who has the most debt in the US? October 2nd, 2012
• Unemployment Rates Across the Euro Area – Tough Times in Key Markets October 1st, 2012
• Policy Transmission Mechanism: Broken in Italy, Better in Spain September 4th, 2012
• Dutch Domestic Demand Dragging Real Home Values August 21st, 2012
• It’s the Exchange Rate, Stupid August 17th, 2012
• The NY Times Is Misleading. And Who Is Correct? Eurostat or China Customs? August 16th, 2012
• World Trade Turning Down August 8th, 2012
• Euro Area Retail Sales Portend Negative Quarter of Real Consumption August 3rd, 2012
• Evidence of Hampered Monetary Policy Transmission Channel in the Euro Area August 1st, 2012
• Euro Area Crisis Hits Confidence in the Core July 25th, 2012
• Euro Area Imbalances Are a Symptom of the Broader Global Imbalances July 19th, 2012
• Is Ireland the Poster Child of Growth? July 3rd, 2012
• Confidence Indicators Deteriorated Significantly This Week June 22nd, 2012
• German Construction Is Looking a Bit ‘Bubbly’ June 19th, 2012
• Euro Area Inflation: A Very Slow Burn June 14th, 2012
• Euro Area ‘Hard Data’ Catching Up with the ‘Soft Data’ – Industrial Production June 13th, 2012
• The Italian Economy Is Sliding June 11th, 2012
• ECB Rates Policy is Clogged in Key Periphery Markets April 4th, 2012
• Euro Area Credit: Did the ECB Wait Too Long? March 29th, 2012
• Housing Bubbles: Less Frothy but Europe is Behind March 19th, 2012
• Does the US Corporate Saving Rate Portend a Lower Unemployment Rate? March 14th, 2012
• CDS: Insurers Pay Only When the Bond Is ‘All Dead’ March 12th, 2012
• Euro Area GDP Report: Not Pretty March 6th, 2012
• European Daily Catch: Retail Sales Stabilizing? March 5th, 2012
• All of the Euro Area Usual Competitive Suspects in One Chart…But with a Twist February 24th, 2012
• Does Latvia Give Us Any Clues? February 21st, 2012
• Euro Area Portfolio Flows February 17th, 2012
• Unfounded Obsession With the Greek Minimum Wage February 8th, 2012
• Temporary Employment: A New Ugly Rearing its Head in Europe? February 5th, 2012
• Which Economy Is Pursuing Procyclical Fiscal Policy? February 3rd, 2012
• I Still Don’t Get Why the ECB Hiked Rates February 2nd, 2012
• Is the ECB/EU Achieving Stated Objective of Balanced Growth? January 31st, 2012
• Core Euro Area Banks Still Very Exposed to Contagion from a Greek Exit January 29th, 2012
• The ECB Is Plugging Holes January 27th, 2012
• European Daily Catch: Know Your Consumers January 26th, 2012
• Japan’s Lopsided Financial Balances January 22nd, 2012
• Ratings Matter for the Euro Area January 16th, 2012
• European Daily Catch: Unemployment and Retail January 6th, 2012
• What Is a Safe Asset? January 5th, 2012
• Fractional Money Multipliers January 3rd, 2012
• Santa Claus as a Social Planner December 23rd, 2011
• The Broad Sovereign Downgrade December 21st, 2011
• EA Infernal Devaluation Progressing December 16th, 2011
• EA Spreads: Why Should the Trend Change? December 12th, 2011
• EA BoP Guide: CA and KA – EA too Dependent on Portfolio Inflows? November 23rd, 2011
• EA Balance of Payments: the Current Account November 21st, 2011
• European Policy Makers Don’t Understand But Markets Do November 9th, 2011
• Worries About Italy: Growth and Politics November 3rd, 2011
• Baby Steps November 2nd, 2011
• The Euro Area Precedent for Policy Failure October 26th, 2011
• This Is What You Get When Policy Makers Become Complacent October 21st, 2011
• Don’t Hold Out for a Lasting German Economic Rebound October 19th, 2011
• Expect Neither ‘Sustainable’ nor ‘Comprehensive’ From Euro Area Leaders October 10th, 2011
• This ‘Competitiveness’ Thing Is a Scam September 29th, 2011
• Europe’s Banking Crisis Is No Longer a Liquidity Crisis, nor Is It a European Version of ‘Subprime’ – It’s a Sovereign Coordination Crisis September 26th, 2011
• Linking Sovereign Risk to Corporate Credit Spreads in Europe September 24th, 2011
• Europe: Why the One-Size-Fits-All Solution Won’t Work September 20th, 2011
• The European Debt Crisis in Charts September 13th, 2011
• The ECB Data Do Not Support the View that European Banks Are Moving Cash Assets out of Europe and into the U.S.: It’s the Fed’s QE2, That’s All September 7th, 2011
• Spanish Consumers AND Savers Take a Forced Siesta September 2nd, 2011
• Malicious ECB Rate Hikes August 24th, 2011
• U.S. Economy in August: Moving Sideways August 23rd, 2011
• G7 Expansion? Not Even Close. Canada’s in a League of its Own August 19th, 2011
• Global Slowdown Underway – It’s More than the Japanese Supply Chain Disruptions August 16th, 2011
• A Three Day Snapshot of U.S. Equity Markets August 9th, 2011
• Endogenous Business Cycle Spending + Tax Receipts at Record Lows = Deficit Hysteria for the Wrong Reasons August 3rd, 2011
• Global PMIs and Fed Policy: They’re Linked August 1st, 2011
• Real Retail Sales in Europe: Will German Consumers Save the Day? Maybe, Perhaps July 31st, 2011
• Credit Growth in the Euro Area – Seriously, Where Is It? July 28th, 2011
• Economists Are Terrible Forecasters – Why Trust Them Anyway? July 25th, 2011
• The Latest Eurozone Response: One Step Closer to the Crisis Point July 24th, 2011
• Scary Chart of the Day: Ireland’s Bank Run July 21st, 2011
• It’s Wrong to Compare Italy to Japan July 19th, 2011
• The Current Labor Market Expansion: Third Poorest Performer 24 Months After the Recession’s End Since 1948 July 17th, 2011
• What Do Spain and Vietnam have in Common? July 14th, 2011
• The U.S. Unemployment Rate: European Levels Without the European Safety Net July 11th, 2011
• Why You Shouldn’t Get Too Excited About the 1.8% Increase in German Factory Orders July 7th, 2011
• US Labor Market: Wage and Salary Growth vs. Payroll Growth July 5th, 2011
• Retail Sales and Fiscal Policy in Europe July 1st, 2011
• State and Local Governments Should Be Listed as a Primary Risk to the U.S. Outlook June 27th, 2011
• What Do You Want to Wager that the IMF’s a Bit Overly Optimistic on the Outlook for Greek Nominal GDP? June 27th, 2011
• Will Someone Please Explain to Me Why the ECB Is Hiking in July June 24th, 2011
• Little Evidence of Convergence Across the Euro Area 12 After Adopting the Euro June 23rd, 2011
• Italy: A Growing Credit Risk Lurking in the Shadows June 21st, 2011
• Is Internal Devaluation Enough for Europe? Probably Not, Very Unlikely…No June 20th, 2011
• Unemployment Rate in Greece: Seriously Uncharted Territory June 16th, 2011
• The Downgrade Assault by the Rating Agencies Continues – What Are the Implications for the EFSF June 15th, 2011
• Who Cares About the Unemployed… June 13th, 2011
• Here’s to Hoping: Wage, Salary, and Income Gains May 31st, 2011
• GDP – A Disappointing Report May 27th, 2011
• Durable Goods Orders: More Evidence of Near-Term Weakness in the U.S. Economy May 26th, 2011
• “Survey Says”… German Growth Has Probably Peaked May 25th, 2011
• Greece Is in a Pickle May 19th, 2011
• Euro Area Inflation: Gaining Momentum Below the Hood May 16th, 2011
• The Euro Area Is ‘Miserable’ May 16th, 2011
• What? Greece Has to Raise Capital in 2012 and Meet a 7.5% Deficit Target this Year? May 9th, 2011
• The Re-Balancing of Trade Within the Euro Area: Some Improvement But Not Enough May 2nd, 2011
• Greece Will Not Be ‘Allowed’ to Default Until Policy Shores Up the Irish Bond Market April 24th, 2011
• ECB Policy Is Tightening – Has Been for Some Time April 11th, 2011
• Germany Is Competitive on a Relative Basis as Measured by Productivity, Standard of Living or Prices April 6th, 2011
• Greece Is Not Argentina April 4th, 2011
• It’s Not Structural Unemployment, It’s the Corporate Saving Glut March 22nd, 2011
• It’s Lonely at the Top: Now It’s Up to the Bank of Japan to Hold the Yen Down March 21st, 2011
• It’s Pretty Obvious How China Can Achieve Its Top Economic Priority of Price Stability March 10th, 2011
• Evidence Says the ECB Is Overreacting March 7th, 2011
• It’s Pretty Simple: The ECB’s Now in Hiking Mode March 3rd, 2011
• Based on the Inflation Print, the ECB May Be Less ‘Hawkish’ than People Think February 28th, 2011
• The UK Faces a Serious Inflation Issue if Oil Pops! February 24th, 2011
• Interesting Interpretation of Trichet’s Comments Regarding ECB Policy February 17th, 2011
• Europe’s at it Again… February 15th, 2011
• The ECB Would Quash a Discrete Shift in German Nominal GDP Rather Than Accommodate It February 14th, 2011
• The Household Survey Paints a Clearer Picture of the January Employment Report Than Does the Nonfarm Payroll February 6th, 2011
• Egyptian CDS in Line with Portuguese CDS January 31st, 2011
• The Other Measure of Income, GDI, Shows Faster Growth and an Oversized Profit Contribution January 28th, 2011
• Japanese Q3 2010 GDP Growth Hit It Out of the Ballpark But Set to Fall Flat Next Quarter November 15th, 2010
• Ireland: The Battle Against “Markets” November 12th, 2010
• Eurozone Rebalancing Depends on German Inflation November 10th, 2010
• German Industrial Production Fell in September November 9th, 2010
• German Industrial Production Fell in September November 9th, 2010
• According to Bond Markets, Ireland Is Not Yet Greece November 7th, 2010
• According to Bond Markets, Ireland Is Not Yet Greece November 7th, 2010
• G4 GDP, Reaction ECB November 2nd, 2010
• Comparing the Fed, the ECB, and the BoE Before Policies Diverge November 1st, 2010
• Eurozone Unemployment Rate Up in September October 29th, 2010
• Unemployment Rates in Europe: Improving Ever so Slightly October 28th, 2010
• A Little Perspective on the Impact that a Weaker USD Will Have on Overall Economic Activity October 27th, 2010
• A Proxy for Nominal Aggregate Demand and Payroll Growth: Treasury Receipts Are Recovering… October 24th, 2010
• China’s Competitive Devaluation October 20th, 2010
• More on how the NY Times Is Wrong About the Japanese Economy October 18th, 2010
• Who’s Bringing Home the Dough? October 14th, 2010
• Who’s Saving Where? An Application of the 3 Sector Financial Balances Map October 11th, 2010
• German Industrial Production: Hot or Not? October 8th, 2010
• Retraining Workers Won’t Work October 4th, 2010
• Evaluating the “Excess” in the U.S. Corporate Financial Balance September 20th, 2010
• Harmonized Unemployment Rates: A Tad Scary September 15th, 2010
• Private-Sector Leverage Says That It’s Not Bill Clinton September 13th, 2010
• Household Leverage: What Does the U.S. Have that the UK Does Not? August 23rd, 2010
• Household Saving Rates in the U.S., UK, and Germany: (Possibly) Light at the End of the Tunnel August 20th, 2010
• Nope, It’s Not Enough for the Weakest of the “Zone” August 18th, 2010
• The Fed Didn’t Announce QE2 August 13th, 2010
• The Compensationless Recovery August 11th, 2010
• Policy Stuck in the Doldrums? Consumers Think So July 29th, 2010
• The Answer Is the Domestic Private Sector July 22nd, 2010
• Inflation Expectations Are Jointly Falling? July 14th, 2010
• Relative Employment Is Shifting July 11th, 2010
• Crib Notes for G7 Unemployment Rates July 6th, 2010
• Yield Curves in Japan and the US: Similar but Not the Same June 29th, 2010
• Another Blow to the U.S. Labor Force June 27th, 2010
• GIIPS Labor Costs Not Moving in the “Competitive” Direction June 24th, 2010
• The Hourless Recovery June 16th, 2010
• I Understand Why Asia’s Worried About Europe June 14th, 2010
• China’s Not the Answer for the Eurozone June 10th, 2010
• Greece – GIIPS – Eurozone – Big Problem April 28th, 2010
• So the Senate Rebukes the VAT for What Exactly? April 20th, 2010
• An Auspicious Sign: the Consumer (for Now) Is Back April 16th, 2010
• Final Destination “Rising Public Deficits” with a Stopover in “Falling Public Deficits” April 15th, 2010
• Macroeconomics: En Route April 12th, 2010
• Reducing Household Financial Leverage: the Easy Way and the Hard Way April 8th, 2010
• The U.S. Economy: On the Surface and Under the Hood April 4th, 2010
• The Saving Rate Paradox April 2nd, 2010
• Can’t Help but Put ISM and Confidence Surveys Together: Looks a Little Off April 1st, 2010
• Thoughts on the Eurozone, Greece, and the EMF March 30th, 2010
• I’m Still Confused About This Whole Eurozone Thing… March 29th, 2010
• China’s Got Options March 23rd, 2010
• 9 Months after the Most Economically Atrocious Piece of Legislation in 2009 (Cash for Clunkers) March 19th, 2010
• The Currency Play – Act 1, Scene I March 16th, 2010
• O.K., Let’s Just Think About This Budget Thing for a While, Part I March 15th, 2010
• The End Game for Europe: Wage Cutting and the Battle for Exports March 7th, 2010
• M1 Growth in Charts: The Majors vs. the BIICs March 1st, 2010
• A Tale of Two Recoveries: Malaysia vs. Germany February 26th, 2010
• Japan: GDP – Exports – Manufacturing – Autos – Toyota February 24th, 2010
• CPI + Velocity = Trouble February 21st, 2010
• Foreign Holdings of U.S. Treasuries: Was It Really That Bad? No. February 17th, 2010
• China, China, China! February 16th, 2010
• The Inflation Moderation February 10th, 2010
• I have to Side with China on this One February 8th, 2010
• Global Consumer Confidence is Currently Less than Stellar February 2nd, 2010
• Unemployment Rates: U.S. Versus the Rest of the World January 31st, 2010
• Bond Markets Soaking up Greece January 25th, 2010
• National Saving Rates Across Europe: Diverse January 24th, 2010
• The Frequency of Economic Statistics Matters at Turning Points January 21st, 2010
• Government Payroll across U.S. Presidencies January 19th, 2010
• China’s Trade Balance Points to Inflation January 11th, 2010
• Two BRICs: India vs. Brazil January 10th, 2010
• World Income Distribution: Not Normal January 7th, 2010
• Unemployment in Europe: It’s Not Just Spain January 3rd, 2010
• Recession Slammed Domestic Migration December 26th, 2009
• Gravity will Drag the $U.S. December 23rd, 2009
• The 2010 Census: Economic Impact Probably Overrated December 21st, 2009
• U.S. FDI, Growth, and the Capital Stock Abroad December 13th, 2009
• India: FDI and Saving are Key…. December 8th, 2009
• Too Efficient NOT to Consolidate December 7th, 2009
• G7 vs. G5 in Charts October 5th, 2009
• The Fed Draining Reserves September 30th, 2009
• The Fed’s Moving Target: NAIRU September 29th, 2009
• Central Bank Rates One Year from Now…FF up 52 bps September 22nd, 2009