Congratulations, David! Via the Real Time Economics blog at the Wall Street Journal. (Hat tip: Mark Thoma)
Economics blogging can be good for your career. David Altig, author of the Macroblog has just been named research director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
Mr. Altig is currently associate research director at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and also teaches at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. His blog postings reflect a mainstream Fed view on key macroeconomic questions of the day.
In an interview, Mr. Altig said he doesn’t know if the blog will continue in his new job. “I‘ve been at it for a while, and I enjoy it but I have to take the lay of the land there and see whether my responsibilities are consistent with keeping it up or not.” A start date hasn’t been announced.
David's blog is one of the best when it comes to macro and monetary policy. At the moment, I have more of his posts saved in my feedreader than from any other blog. That says something. His blog started up about the same time as mine, and he was one of the first in the economics wing of the blogsphere to notice this little blog.
His analysis often includes a statement of the conventional wisdom with a healthy dose of reality. His post yesterday is another good one in that tradition.
I wish David the very best in his new position, and I hope that his blog will continue, even if it is in a less frequent form.
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