PODCAST: David McRaney on the Science Behind Persuasion
Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with science journalist David McRaney, who investigates the psychology of reasoning, decision-making and judgment on his blog “You Are Not...
Author : Nelli Avetisyan
The ECB Has Been Driving EU Inflation
Inflation is galloping in the eurozone, as the euro tumbles. In August 2022 annual eurozone inflation reached 9.1%, and rates exceeding 20% are now being...
U.N. Calls On Fed, Other Central Banks to Halt Interest-Rate Increases – WSJ
The Federal Reserve and other central banks risk pushing the global economy into recession followed by prolonged stagnation if they keep raising interest rates, a...
America’s economy is too strong for its own good – The Economist
Two days after the latest interest-rate rise, the seven governors of the Federal Reserve met with some businessfolk. Any misgivings about the effects of tighter...
Kwarteng to Bring Forward UK Fiscal Plan to Calm Markets – Bloomberg
Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng is due to bring forward the announcement of his medium-term fiscal plan as he seeks to reassure financial markets...
European tech must learn to embrace failure – The Financial Times
A decade or so ago, much was written about the stigma attached to failure in European culture. The theory was that this curiously regional fear...
How Norway’s central bank is trying out its own digital currency – Euronews
A cashless society may not seem so far away in the distant future. But the current digital alternatives such as cryptocurrencies have proved volatile, while...
Global Food Crisis Demands Support For People, Open Trade, Bigger Local Harvests
Food insecurity has been rising since 2018. Even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the increasing frequency and severity of climate shocks, regional conflicts and the...
The UK economy still hasn’t recovered from the pandemic. Now it’s on the ropes again – CNN
There was good news and bad in Friday’s revised data about the UK economy. It grew — marginally — in the second quarter of the...
Economists now accept exchange-rate intervention can work – The Economist
Milton friedman, a Nobel-prizewinning economist, was an early fan of floating currencies. The case for flexible exchange rates, he once pointed out, is the same...