One-stop shopping to understand the global economic mess

It's easy to get confused about the causes of the global economic mess we're in.

It's a subject that's not going away any time soon, and one worth understanding.

From time to time, at the BackTalk Blog, we recommend Web sites worth looking at.

In that spirit, check out The Baseline Scenario, which is written by economists or other specialists with a goal towards clarity.

True, the phrase "writing on economics" and clarity usually don't go hand in hand. Nor does the word entertaining.

But the Baseline Scenario manages, somehow, to do it.