Atlanta Fed research director introduces economics blog

EconSouth, Fall, 2008

Research staff at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta are now producing macroblog, an economics blog that appears on the Atlanta Fed's Web site.

The blog offers commentary and observations on economic topics of the day, including monetary policy, macroeconomic developments, financial issues, and Southeastern economic trends. Posts so far, for example, have addressed what employment statistics say about the economy's health, the gross domestic product deflator, the complexities of measuring inflation, and the results of the federal government's economic stimulus package.

David Altig, senior vice president and director of research at the Atlanta Fed, originally launched macroblog in 2004 while he was an adjunct professor of economics in the graduate business school at the University of Chicago. He suspended the blog in August 2007, when he began his responsibilities at the Atlanta Fed.

Altig made the first post to the Atlanta Fed's macroblog on Aug. 12, 2008. New posts appear on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Postings made during the week before and the week of Federal Open Market Committee meetings do not comment on monetary policy.

Users may subscribe to macroblog via RSS feeds and e-mail.

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