About Olivier Blanchard

Olivier Blanchard is Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), on leave from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Blanchard on 2011’s Four hard Truths

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2011 was supposed to be the year that saw the back of the Global Crisis. Alas, the crisis is still with us as the North Atlantic banking part of the crisis morphed into the Eurozone crisis, and slow growth in advanced countries once again threatens emerging economies. In this column, IMF chief economist Oliver Blanchard [...]