NCC Statement on Energy

You can download the report here.

New Central Bank Bulletin

The October bulletin is out.   The comment article provides an interesting and wide-ranging assessment of the current state of the Irish economy and the set of policy challenges.

US Monetary Policy in the Near- and Medium-Terms

Here are a couple of interesting pieces from the NY-FED and SF-FED:

A Bit Better, But Very Far From Best

Disagreement about the Inflation Outlook

O’Rourke on trade in the Financial Times

Kevin’s comparison of the trajectory of trade in the Great Depression and the current depression (which I think was stimulated by a post on this blog) gets good coverage in the Financial Times today.

As (Some) Others See Us

Not all foreign commentary on the Irish “Yes” vote was as flattering as that reported in the Irish papers:

see http://www.gocomics.com/jeffdanziger/2009/10/04/

BTW this shows how enduring certain ethnic stereotypes are in the US!