The fall 2009 issue of the Economic Trends and Economic Policy journal brings an analysis of recent macroeconomic trends, a research paper by S. Švaljek, M. Vizek and A. Mervar "Cyclically Adjusted Budget Balance: The Case of Croatia" in Croatian, a review of the book "The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets" (Tito Boeri and Jan van Ours) and a report on the ERSA 2009 congress "Territorial Cohesion of Europe and Integrative Planning".