About

I should have done this earlier…Recently I began to post in english, so to the “new entrants” I´ll say a bit about myself. While working as an economist at a large american corporation in the US in the mid 1990´s, I got interested in the US economy, particularly because I found the economic analysis being produced by investment banking houses mostly unconvincing. To most analysts, in late 1994 early 1995 the economy was set to “drown” and inflation was “lurking around the corner”. The “great Moderation” was a few years away from being “identified”. After returning to Brazil, I continued to write and talk about the US economy, publishing in 2002 a book of essays written between 1994 and 2000 that essentially tracked the US economy.
More recently, Scott Sumner sort of encouraged me to blog. I started doing it in portuguese but that changed…