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For more than a year, every new inflation number seems to have caught observers by surprise. But in recent months the surprise has been from...

For months, many macroeconomic observers have been likening Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s unenviable position to that of Fed Chair Paul Volcker in the early...

More than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and it’s expected that almost 70 percent will live in urban areas by 2050. People...

Global debt remained above pre-pandemic levels in 2021 even after posting the steepest decline in 70 years, underscoring the challenges for policymakers. Total public and...

UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s decision to revisit the bank ring-fencing regime as part of his financial regulation reform agenda – the so-called ‘Edinburgh Reforms’, lauded...

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Kathleen McCarthy, the global co-head of Blackstone Real Estate. The largest owner of commercial real estate globally, Blackstone...

Food prices, which reached a record earlier this year, have increased food insecurity and raised social tensions. They have also strained the budgets of governments...

A wave of austerity is building as governments return to the tried-and-failed belt-tightening policies of the past, rather than exploring alternative means of creating fiscal...

With U.S. housing affordability at its lowest in decades, renters are staying in their properties longer, and now some are investing in wallpaper, doorknobs and...

The United States recorded the largest increase of inward foreign direct investment of all economies in 2021. The latest release of the IMF’s Coordinated Direct...