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The 8th edition of my intermediate macroeconomics text will come out in June, ready for fall classes. One significant change in this edition is that some of the existing material has been reorganized. Over the past several years, monetary policymakers at the Federal Reserve have engaged in a variety of unconventional measures to prop up a weak banking system and promote recovery from a deep recession.
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"Let's make our demand for gasoline even more inelastic." Other economists suggest a gasoline tax that would increase as gasoline prices fall toward a predetermined floor and decrease as pump prices rise above it. This way, OPEC countries would be unable to manipulate prices lower so as to destroy the returns of persons risking capital in alternative-energy investments, which the cartel has adeptly done in the past.
Giancarlo Corsetti , 2 April 2012 Is austerity self-defeating? Is it keeping Europeans underemployed for years and destroying the very growth needed to pay off the debt?
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La salida de Grecia de la zona del euro producirá una recesión en América Latina. Que Grecia abandone el euro (Grexit) ya no es una hipótesis remota: el electorado griego ha rechazado a los partidos políticos que apoyan las medidas de austeridad exigidas por los acreedores. El gobierno que se formará después de las elecciones del 17 de junio difícilmente estará dispuesto a cumplir con esas exigencias.