About The Baseline Scenario
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The Baseline Scenario is dedicated to explaining some of the key issues in the global economy and developing concrete policy proposals. Since it was launched in September 2008, this blog has been cited by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal (Real Time Economics), The Economist (Free Exchange), The Financial Times, Time Magazine, NPR (Planet Money), and many other sites around the Internet. The authors of the blog have also published articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, and the online editions of The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Economist, The New Republic, The Guardian, Forbes, Bloomberg, and Reuters. The blog was the subject of an interview with Simon Johnson in The Wall Street Journal and an article in Economic Principals. Content from The Baseline Scenario is currently republished by Seeking Alpha, Talking Points Memo Cafe, RGE Monitor, and Vox.
Authors
Peter Boone is chair of Effective Intervention, a UK-based charity, an associate at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, and a principal in Salute Capital Management Limited.
Simon Johnson, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and a member of the CBO’s Panel of Economic Advisers. He is a co-founder of The Baseline Scenario.
James Kwak is a former McKinsey consultant, a co-founder of Guidewire Software, and currently a student at the Yale Law School. He is a co-founder of The Baseline Scenario.
All opinions expressed here are those of the authors alone, and not necessarily those of the organizations with which they are affiliated or any other organization or person.
You can reach us at baselinescenario [at] gmail [dot] com.
Major Media Appearances
Articles in Other Publications
The Hearing, our weekly Washington Post online column.
Former version of The Hearing, a blog covering economic policy debates on Capitol Hill.
Simon’s column on the New York Times Economix blog.
Simon’s articles and video blogs at The New Republic.
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Simon and James, “A Hedge Fund Like No Other,” The Washington Post, September 23, 2008.
Simon and James, “The Price of Salvation,” Financial Times Economists’ Forum, September 24, 2008.
Peter and Simon, “Why Doesn’t Continental Europe Get It?,” Financial Times Economists’ Forum, October 7, 2008.
Peter and Simon, “The Next World War? It Could Be Financial,” The Washington Post, October 12, 2008.
Peter and Simon, “In the Line of Fire: Emerging Markets,” Forbes (online), October 12, 2008.
Peter, Simon, and James, “How to Manage the Banks,” The Washington Post, October 15, 2008.
Simon, “What Should the Stimulus Plan Contain?,” National Journal Online, October 21, 2008.
Peter, Simon, and James, “Start by Saving the Eurozone,” The Guardian (online), October 24, 2008.
Simon, Testimony Before the Joint Economic Committee, Hearing on “Faltering Economic Growth and the Need for Economic Stimulus,” October 30, 2008.
Simon, “No Time to Wait,” Reuters MacroScope, November 5, 2008.
Peter, Simon, and James, “An Economic Strategy for Obama,” Wall Street Journal Real Time Economics, November 12, 2008.
Simon and Alex Stricker, “How to Mop Up Foreclosure Flood,” Bloomberg, November 17, 2008.
Simon, Testimony Before the Senate Budget Committee, Hearing on “The Economic Outlook and Options for Stimulus,” November 19, 2008.
Peter and Simon, “Markets Test U.S. Resolve,” Wall Street Journal Real Time Economics, November 20, 2008.
Simon, “Five Things That Could Go Wrong with Obama’s Stimulus Package,” Forbes (online), December 23, 2008.
Simon and James, “What’s Ahead: The New World of Financial Risk,” Financial Executive, January 2009.
Peter and Simon, “Time to Recapitalize Banks Fully,” Wall Street Journal Real Time Economics, January 15, 2009.
Peter and Simon, “To Save the Banks We Must Stand Up to the Bankers,” Financial Times, January 27, 2009.
James, “Beyond the Stimulus Package,” The Politic, February 2009.
Simon and James, “National Debt for Beginners,” NPR Planet Money, February 4, 2009.
Simon, “Insufficient Boldness,” The New Republic (online), February 19, 2009.
Simon and James, “Still Waiting for Helicopter Ben,” The Guardian (online), February 24, 2009.
Simon, “Bust the Slump First,” The New Republic (online), February 25, 2009.
Peter and Simon, “For Obama and Brown, Two Directives,” Forbes (online), March 2, 2009.
Simon, “The Slightest Glimmer,” The New Republic (online), March 8, 2009.
Simon, “Rodrik Roundtable: Rein in the Banks,” The Economist (online), March 13, 2009.
Simon, “Whistling past the Graveyard,” The New Republic (online), March 16, 2009.
Simon and James, “Off with the Bankers,” The New York Times, March 20, 2009.
Simon and James, “Geithner’s Plan Isn’t Money in the Bank,” Los Angeles Times, March 24, 2009.
Simon, “Bankers’ Delight,” The New Republic (online), March 24, 2009.
Simon (with James), “The Quiet Coup,” The Atlantic, May 2009 (posted March 26, 2009).
Simon, “The IMF Matters,” The New Republic (online), March 28, 2009.
Simon, “From the Jaws of Defeat,” The New Republic (online), March 30, 2009.
Peter and Simon, “The Real Geithner Plan, a ‘Nuclear Option’,” Wall Street Journal Real Time Economics, March 31, 2009.
Simon and James, “The Radicalization of Ben Bernanke,” Washington Post, April 5, 2009 (online preview April 3).
James, “Stressed About the Stress Tests,” Foreign Policy (online), May 6, 2009.
Peter and Simon, “Is Stock Rally for Real?,” CNN, May 8, 2009.
Simon and James, “Finance: Before the Next Meltdown,” Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Fall 2009 (online preview August 26).
Peter and Simon, “The Next Financial Crisis,” The New Republic, September 8, 2009.
Peter and Simon, “Waiting for the Next Lehman Brothers,” The Times, September 13, 2009.
