We will cover topics such as: 1) Long swings in economic growth, business cycles and financial cycles 2) Non-Renewable resources and resource boom-bust cycles 3) Macroeconomics of climate change, climate disasters, and climate policies 4) Wage, income and wealth inequalities: Theory and empirical evidence 5) Globalization, the labor market, and the Phillips-Curve: Recent work 6) Financial market, financial intermediaries, and financial instability: Recent work 7) Conventional and unconventional monetary policies: Recent work 8) Fiscal Policy, the multiplier and evolution of sovereign debt: Recent work 8) Fiscal Policy, the multiplier and evolution of sovereign debt 9) Labor market, new technology, employment and wage disparities 10) Pandemic-driven global meltdown and policies This course is accepted as a three-credit course relevant for MA, MS, and Ph.D. students (for Ph.D. students as preparation for the QE in Macro). For MA students some knowledge of macroeconomics such as Grad Macro is needed. More advanced students will also be introduced to Keynesian macroeconomic dynamics, regime switching modeling and some multi-regime econometrics. Students are also welcome to register for auditing the course. If you are interested in such a topic class and if you would like to have other topics covered, please write us a note.There will also be lab sessions accompanying it. Only a research paper is required for the course.