Urbanomics

In uncertain times like the present, where interest rates are ruling at historic lows, government deficits are mounting, and inflationary pr...

The Obama administration's official announcement that the spending measures of the $787 bn fiscal stimulus (or ARRA) has so far created...

The dramatic events in the aftermath of the bursting of the sub-prime mortgage bubble has destroyed many reputations and repudiated much of ...

Early this month, in a moved aimed at diversifying its forex holdings , the RBI sprang a surprise by purchasing 220 tons of gold from the IM...

Paul Krugman has a working draft that argues and models how increasing returns, in the form of localized external economies, plays a major ...

David Beckworth has two graphs that depicts the nominal spending changes in the US economy and among OECD economies for the half century si...

When the Bush era tax cuts expire next year, they would have cost the US Government $2.34 trillion , 61.4% of which would have gone to the t...