With inflation a meaningful economic factor after a decades-long hiatus in many countries, households need no tutorial on its impact on their day-to-day spending, as budgets are stretched thin by ...

When I was a graduate student in economics and learned about the inflation of the 1970s, I marveled at how poorly policymakers understood the problem. The price controls they enacted that decade ...

Much to the chagrin of party officials, China’s inflation rate rose by 0.4 percent in January, ending a much-needed five-month drop in the rate. While commentary has rightly noted that the rise in ...

The Federal Reserve admits it badly misjudged the beginning of the inflation crisis, but officials hope they won’t make the same mistake again. President Donald Trump’s tariffs are about to determine ...

A hotter-than-expected inflation print rocked bond markets Wednesday, sending the US 10-year Treasury note yield (^TNX) to 4.56%, the highest level since November. The jump (18 bps) was the biggest in ...

Feb. 12 (UPI) --In earlier installments of this series on international project finance in Latin America, we examined how sovereign risk and currency volatility influence the cost of capital for ...

LONDON, July 16 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Central bankers are close to declaring mission accomplished. After inflation soared beyond 9% following the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it’s ...

With President Trump’s stunning return to power, Congress has the opportunity in 2025 to enact additional business tax cuts. One of their specific goals should be to make “full expensing” of business ...

New Zealand’s central bank has learned lessons from the post-pandemic bout of fast inflation and is now better placed to respond to future shocks, chief economist Paul Conway said. The Reserve Bank’s ...