When cryptocurrency prices surged last year, this created hordes of newly-minted digital millionaires. Now we are seeing some real-world consequences. This week Fidelity, the asset...
When the Group of Twenty finance ministers and central bank governors gather in Jakarta, in person and virtually, this week, they can take inspiration from...
Central bank digital currency (CBDC) experiments are flourishing across the world, with the Bank for International Settlements estimating that 90% of central banks are currently...
Economists debating inflation in the United States are confronting a difficult challenge: stripping out volatile price changes to gauge underlying pressures. The most common measure...
Companies are finding ways to charge consumers more without actually raising retail prices. WSJ economics reporter Gabriel T. Rubin joins host J.R. Whalen to discuss...
Inflation has come back faster, spiked more markedly, and proved to be more stubborn and persistent than major central banks initially thought possible. ...
In ordinary times, Europeans save around 12 percent of their income. But as families stayed at home and furlough schemes supported income during the pandemic,...
COVID-19 has widened fissures within societies and between nations in a way that risks hobbling international collaboration on critical challenges. What actions need to be...
More businesses are using a system called dynamic pricing, where they can quickly adjust prices in response to economic factors. WSJ reporter Charity L. Scott...