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As the gatekeepers for the mobile app market, Apple and Google have amassed significant, persistent market power with which to extract monopoly rents from consumers...

If you are borrowing money, the interest rate (or lending rate) is the amount you are charged for doing so – shown as a percentage...

In December 2023, a video was posted on X that generated a lot of attention. Gaining more than five million views in 24 hours, it...

Global debt has stabilized, though it remains at an elevated level, as a continued reduction in private-sector lending offset greater borrowing by governments. Total debt...

Policymakers will need to achieve a difficult balance between benefits and risks while safeguarding both individual consumers and financial stability...

The natural diamond industry is facing an existential threat: lab-grown diamonds. They’re chemically and physically identical to natural stones, and they’re just a fraction of...

In finance, equity refers to an ownership stake whose value is reduced by an associated debt. For homeowners, home equity refers to the value of...

US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s speech at this year’s Jackson Hole conference may not seem to place him among Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan...

There are numerous definitions of financial stability. Most of them have in common that financial stability is about the absence of system-wide episodes in which...

Economies of scale represent the potential benefits of having a larger operation. In theory, larger operations are able to increase production, buy higher quantities of...