economist

The U.S. lifeline has for now stopped a run on the peso that risked snowballing into a deeper financial crisis, economists say.

The EU's attempts to integrate the economies of its 27 member states have been insufficient to boost lackluster growth, the IMF's chief economist said in an interview.

In recent weeks, highly indebted Argentina has had to spend more than a billion US dollars to defend the peso, a strategy most economists believe is unsustainable.

The research to which I refer was authored by Marina Azzimonti, a senior economist and research adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

And now some economists say the country could be about to enter a recession.