Many commentators have interpreted buoyant GDP and unemployment data in the United States as vindicating President Donald Trump’s economic policies, and some suggest that his re-election chances have improved as a result...
detailsEvery Indian general election beats its predecessor’s record to become the largest in world history. This time, Indian voters must decide whether they want an inclusive country that embodies hope, or a divided one that promotes fear.
detailsThe valid insight behind "modern monetary theory" – that governments and central banks together can always create nominal demand
detailsIs Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) a potential boon to economic policymakers, or, as Harvard’s Kenneth Rogoff recently argued
detailsA decade after the 2008 financial crisis, faith in markets self-regulating abilities once again lies in tatters. There simply is no single real interest rate that would spur investors to funnel all existing savings
detailsOver the past few years, the US Federal Reserve has been ahead of other major central banks in normalizing monetary policy.
detailssuddenly, capitalism is visibly sick. The virus of socialism has reemerged and is infecting the young once more
detailsAlthough economists are well positioned to imagine new institutional arrangements, their habit of thinking at the margin and sticking close to the evidence at hand encourages an aversion to radical change...
detailsn our efficiency-obsessed society, new technologies are deployed with the single-minded objective of boosting productivity and eliminating the need for human labor
detailsAt the recent World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, participants made the same mistake they always do
detailsOver the course of this year and next, the biggest economic risks will emerge in those areas where investors think recent patterns are unlikely to change
detailsIran is exerting considerable pressure on the Iraqi government to compel it not to abide by the US sanctions that have been imposed on Tehran in order for it to change
detailsNow that cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin have plummeted from last years absurdly high valuations, the techno-utopian mystique of so-called distributed-ledger technologies should be next.
detailsGovernments are largely responsible for the borrowing binge, with their debt growing not just nominally...
detailsClausewitz famously observed that war has an enduring nature and a changing character that evolves over time as technology, society, economics, and politics shift. This observation also applies to strategic leadership: it too has an enduring nature and a
detailsTurkey is trying to rewrite the chapter on crisis management in the emerging-market playbook...
detailsIt is important for any investor to think about putting their money into oil to consider how the price of oil is affected
detailsThe end of the Iran Deal will strengthen the hand of Tehrans hardliners
detailsTurbulent developments in the past few months on the foreign exchange and gold markets in Iran
detailsThe opposite of populist nationalism is not globalist elitism; it is economic realism. And in the end, countries such as Britain, the United States
detailsThe euro may be approaching another crisis. Italy, the eurozones third largest economy, has chosen what can at best be described as a Euroskeptic government
detailsA look at a decade of failed social, economic and political reform in Jordan goes a far way to explain recent mass anti-government protests demanding the resignation of the government.
detailsPessimism afflicts those who have lost out economically
detailsAt least since the days of John Maynard Keynes, professional economists have not had to worry too much about the moral implications of their technical work
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