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Leading economists share their thoughts on money, rates and prices
Upping the ante following the initial weaponization of the dollar in 2022, the United States and a number of allied nations have agreed in principle to begin distributing profits on seized Russian assets to Ukraine. Interest payments on securities in which hundreds of billions of...
Should economic freedom take a back seat to civil rights? Jack Ma found out the hard way that both are equally important. The Alibaba founder and Chinese billionaire has been...
The pandemic has created as many opportunities as it has removed, and there will be no lasting damage – not even for the young. At the outset of this crisis, there were...
Pornhub, the world’s largest aggregator of pornographic videos, has been cut off from accepting credit cards. The company is only accepting cryptocurrency for its premium service...
This article was originally published in October 2020. As we adjust to what may be a permanent shift from 95% to 80% capacity in the economy, we face penalties in terms of price,...
Biographers of John Maynard Keynes have a peculiar habit of treading very lightly around their subject matter’s involvement in the eugenics movement. The oversight is not for...
This article was originally published in October 2020. A new book by Stephanie Kelton offers insights into an increasingly relevant monetary theory, but these are dangerous...
The covid-19 pandemic has afflicted India with its biggest economic shock since the oil crises of the 1970s. The Indian economy, among the world’s fastest-growing emerging...
This article was originally published in autumn 2019. Of course they’re inherently illogical, but let’s unpack what they mean in practice for the wider investment market. How...
One of the loudest and most frequent defences of WFH (aka working from home) is that it is perfectly viable in this ultra tech-age. Perfectly viable that co-workers can connect...