Just as a corporate balance sheet can provide insights into a company’s financial health, a “global balance sheet” (GBS), tallying the assets and liabilities of
Profit margins are sliding across much of corporate America as companies struggle to keep raising prices, cheering central bankers trying to fight soaring inflation but
Households are facing a “groundhog year” in 2023, as soaring gas bills and planned tax rises squeeze disposable incomes and send living standards tumbling for
Global dealmaking suffered a record fall during the second half of this year, as rising interest rates and economic uncertainty brought a period of frenzied
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Inflation inflicted misery on pretty much all workers in 2022. Yet peek below the surface, and the year’s most consequential economic development may be what
At the start of February 2022, the five-year, five-year-forward consumer-price-index (CPI) inflation break-even rate in the US bond market was hovering at around 2% per