A discussion with Shihoko Goto and Yuki Tatsumi.

The speech by the ECB's Isabel Schnabel, advertised on the official ECB twitter stream caused a characteristically grumpy outburst from me.

Ex-RBI governor thinks inflation situation is different in India. There are elements of supply chain issues and commodity price rises but the imbalance is due to higher spending by upper-middle-class.

The American Economics Association papers and proceedings are out. This is a selection of the selection of papers presented at the AEA annual meetings. It tells you a lot about where the economics profession is--what papers are submitted--and also where the AEA as our (so far) premier professional organization is--what papers got included -- and perhaps more interestingly, where it isn't.