We should all be asking more questions
As a junior economics reporter, I was once given an assignment which made me panic. I had been asked to write a story about an...
Author : Nelli Avetisyan
What Recession? Some Economists See Chances of a Growth Rebound – The New York Times
Many economists and investors had a clear narrative coming into 2023: The Federal Reserve had spent months pushing borrowing costs rapidly higher in a bid...
Britain Avoids Recession by Narrowest Margin During Strikes – Bloomberg
The UK avoided a recession last year by the narrowest of margins after the cost-of-living crisis and industrial action hit the economy during December. Gross...
The Federal Reserve’s $2.5trn question – The Economist
Can a central bank make $2.5trn of cash vanish without anyone much noticing? That is the improbable, even audacious, mission the Federal Reserve has begun,...
As Big Tech’s Growth and Innovation Slow, Its Market Dominance Endures – WSJ
The top U.S. technology companies were once a rare combination of big, fast-growing and ferociously innovative. Now, they are mostly just big. Their growth has...
Google, Microsoft and the threat from overmighty trustbusters – The Economist
There are mergers to worry about and mergers to welcome. In the first category are tie-ups between biggish firms in the same line of business....
Charting Globalization’s Turn to Slowbalization After Global Financial Crisis
The free flow of ideas, people, goods, services, and capital across national borders leads to greater economic integration. But globalization, the trend toward these things...
Welcome to the ‘generative AI’ era. Resistance is futile – CNN
I can already feel it coming. The emails. The pitches. The explosion of buzzwords. This is going to be the year of “generative AI” the...
New White House Wage Data Show Slowing Pressure on ‘Supercore’ Inflation – WSJ
New White House wage figures suggest labor-cost pressures are easing in the parts of the economy where the Federal Reserve is most concerned about inflation....
Microsoft targets Google’s search dominance with AI-powered Bing – The Financial Times
Microsoft’s use of the artificial intelligence used in ChatGPT to disrupt the internet search market is set to demolish the high profit margins that have...