economics

There is a whole lot of attention on the upcoming China’s 20th National Party Congress, which is slated to begin October 16. It is the biggest political event on the...

Over the long run, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) has an inflation target of 2%. It forms one of the three pillars of the Fed's mandate, the other two...

Top 8 ArticlesThe Federal Reserve bears some responsibility for the current economic problems because it was too loose in the past, not because it is normalising...

The term "free money" has been everywhere in financial markets for most of the last two years. Its genesis comes from the fact that central banks pumped enormous...

There has been no shortage of pundits that have predicted the impending demise of the US dollar in recent times. Its use as a reserve currency is diminishing, they...

Inflation may be the common enemy of global finance right now, but every central bank has different ways of dealing with it.  In the US, Federal Reserve Chairman...

“There’s a tendency for markets to focus on the present and extrapolate it forever”, said Olivier Blanchard, a well-respected economist formally of the IMF. We could...

Top 6 ArticlesOne in six US homes is in arrears on their utility bills and 40% of American small businesses don’t pay their rent on time.Joe Biden’s college loan...

A lot has happened since Signal or Noise last appeared on your screens in June. The US entered a technical recession, UK inflation hit 10%, China went into and came...

Cast your mind back to March 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic was shutting the world down. To save the economy and thousands of SMEs from going bankrupt, the...

Top 5 ArticlesCEOs and Boards love “stakeholder capitalism” because woke values are easier to achieve than profits. In pricey Los Angeles, one business is building...

What is the first thing you think of when you hear the phrase "central bank"? Philip Lowe? Jerome Powell? Inflation? Interest rates?  When a slew of headlines drop,...

In the first episode of Signal or Noise, we discussed the big economic and macro issues that are affecting investment decisions right now. If you missed that chat, you...

Welcome to the very first edition of Signal or Noise - Livewire's brand new series dedicated to data and economics. Our mission for this series is simple - to make...

Top 5 ArticlesSix things that could drive markets higher amidst the current bearishness. By one measure, Australia’s property prices have just surpassed Japan’s at...

Politics and economics are two subjects that go hand in hand. For Jeremy Lawson, head of the research institute and chief economist at abrdn, it forms the backbone of...

Top 5 ArticlesAllianz will repay investors in its collapsed structured alpha funds over $5 billion after having admitted they lied about the modelled performance of...

When America sneezes, the world catches a cold - or maybe even, this time, a plague. The US hands down its April inflation numbers tonight and the whole world will...

For those who haven't heard of him, Rick Rieder is BlackRock's chief investment officer of global fixed income, head of the global asset allocation team, and chairman...

The inspiration for the title of this wire is a Forbes article published earlier this week by Brian Domitrovic of The Laffer Center in Texas. In it, Brian declared...