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In recent decades, inflation has been a boon to middle-class US households’ balance sheets, thus helping to mitigate the increase in overall wealth inequality. Those...

The severe economic challenges posed by the global financial crisis, and more recently the pandemic, sparked a debate on whether central banks should expand their...

To be ready for the move to real-time everything, transaction banks need to modernise their plumbing, re-engineer their core processes and harmonise their data flows,...

If there was one principle uniting the diffuse challenges facing G20 finance ministers at this weekend’s meetings, from inflation to climate change, it was that...

When cryptocurrency prices surged last year, this created hordes of newly-minted digital millionaires. Now we are seeing some real-world consequences. This week Fidelity, the asset...

When the Group of Twenty finance ministers and central bank governors gather in Jakarta, in person and virtually, this week, they can take inspiration from...

Central bank digital currency (CBDC) experiments are flourishing across the world, with the Bank for International Settlements estimating that 90% of central banks are currently...

When was the last time you used cash? In his latest book, Eswar Prasad looks at a world, not that far off, where using cash...

Economists debating inflation in the United States are confronting a difficult challenge: stripping out volatile price changes to gauge underlying pressures. The most common measure...

Companies are finding ways to charge consumers more without actually raising retail prices. WSJ economics reporter Gabriel T. Rubin joins host J.R. Whalen to discuss...