Sunday, March 30th, 2025

The End of Magical Debt Thinking

For over a decade, numerous economists – primarily but not exclusively on the left –…

Higher Interest Rates Are Here to Stay

Even with the recent partial retreat in long-term real and nominal interest rates, they remain…

Tick TikTok Goes Globalization

The spectacle of the US Congress grilling TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on March 23 could one…

Too Soon for Global Optimism

Many of those who attended this year’s meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos…

Britain Is Not an Emerging Market – Yet

Following British Prime Minister Liz Truss’s “mini-budget” – a mishmash of policies ranging from Reaganomics-style…

Will the Dollar’s Surge End in Whiplash?

The US dollar has been on a tear this summer. The Japanese yen and the euro have fallen…

The Energy Price Roller Coaster

Over the past two and a half years, world oil and gas prices have been…

Can the World Afford Russia-Style Sanctions on China?

As the global economic fallout from the current Western-led sanctions against Russia becomes clearer, are…

Is the Peace Dividend Over?

Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine should be a wake-up call for Western politicians, corporate leaders,…

Will This COP Be Different?

As world leaders gather at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, there is tremendous…

Back to the Seventies?

With the United States’ disastrous exit from Afghanistan, the parallels between the 2020s and the…

Are Central Banks to Blame for Rising Inequality?

Judging by the number of times phrases such as “equitable growth” and “the distributional footprint…