B&F Interview with Brian Lenihan

The Business&Finance website carries an interview with Brian Lenihan (conducted yesterday): you can read it here.

Life as an Academic Economist: US versus Europe

As suggested by one commentator, this article provides an interesting analysis of the relative merits of US versus Europe for academic economists: you can read it here.

Reinhart and Rogoff on Debt and Growth

Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff have an interesting op-ed in today’s FT: you can read it here.

Erin Go Blog

Trevor Butterworth writes on the Forbes.com website about blogging in Ireland and highlights the role of this blog in the domestic political and financial discourse: you can read it here.

Update: this article is also picked up by The Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan’s blog at The Atlantic magazine site.

Improvement in World Economic Outlook

The IMF has raised its growth projections for 2010 and 2011. Although the fastest-growing countries are in the emerging markets group, the upward revisions in the growth forecasts for the euro area, US and UK are also quite substantial (relative to priors): you can get more details here.