The Fed’s Historic Error
The US Federal Reserve’s series of suboptimal decisions in the last 12 months regarding inflation means that its next policy decision also is likely to...
Author : Nelli Avetisyan
Economic Indicators Signal Diminished Growth Momentum at Start of Year
The economic recovery continues, though the pace of the recovery has slowed. Notably, our global forecast was lowered in January to a still-healthy 4.4 percent...
PODCAST: Are companies walking their diversity talk?
In this episode Isabel talks to Taylor Nicole Rogers, the FT’s US labour and equality correspondent, and Working It regular, to get a snapshot of...
The ECB must move slowly on interest rates
The last time the European Central Bank raised interest rates, in 2011, then president Jean-Claude Trichet cited “sharp increases in energy and food prices”. The...
How to avoid a fatal backlash against globalisation – The Economist
In 1920 john Maynard Keynes reflected on the Britain he knew before the outbreak of the first world war. “The inhabitant of London”, he wrote,...
PODCAST: Why Companies Are Reviewing Pay Raises More Than Once a Year
As the competition for workers continues, many companies are finding that conducting annual salary reviews isn’t enough. WSJ workplace reporter Lauren Weber joins host J.R....
The Upside of US Inflation
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...
Should Monetary Finance Remain Taboo?
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...
‘Instant-fication’ is coming – are transaction banks prepared?
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,...
Crypto’s rise requires a global response
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...