Michael McDonough is an independent research consultant in North America and Asia. Over the past two years, he has advised hedge funds, central banks, broker-dealers and corporations on a range of economic and financial issues. He is also the creator of Fiat Economics, a global financial/economics blog. McDonough has worked on Wall Street as an economist, specializing in the U.S. and Latin America.
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