Profile of Maria Ramos – South African Financial Sector Reformer

IMF has a nice profile of Maria Ramos. He led to the reforms of South Africa after the end of apartheid regime.

Two suggestions to impose restrictions on current account surplus economies

Charles Goodhart & Dimitrios Tsomocos and Daniel Gros have two interesting suggestions.

Goodhart & Tsomocos propose that both the current accont deficit country and current account surplus country should pay a tax:

Basics of quantitative easing

Talks of QE-II build up (infact market people are now debating how much of QE not whether there will be QE. It is being called Bernanke Put).

Alan Blinder presents a nice primer on quantitative easing in this year’s Homer Lecture at St Louis Fed. He summarises what happened in US and then comapres it with Japan.