Central banks, inflation, jobs, growth and global economic policy.
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Sixty years of data show inflation moving in step across the world. Economic theory still treats it as a national affair.
Our regal daily links, including madmen and cowards at UN, UK war fever, Europe worsening energy woes, and Bush portrait book.
The development of the M7 rifle shows how optimizing desirable weapon capabilities can impose costs across a larger military system and why procurement should optimize the force, not the weapon.
Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin warned that temporary shocks spurring inflation this year could drag on and new cost pressures could develop.
How do the lessons of survival in ‘The Oregon Trail’ computer game apply to surviving in America today?
Following years of consultations and deliberations, the European Union enacted legislation in 2024 creating the Anti–Money Laundering Authority (AMLA), a new agency that is now starting up its operations in Frankfurt. In...
A look at how Treasury trading is becoming more concentrated around the designated pricing for fixed-income indexes, especially on month-end trading days.
Our dangerous daily links: Condom holes = baby boom? China buys energy from Canada, Trump press ban backfire, data centers run out of steel, airlines cut flighs over fuel scarcity, Europe climate risk, Japan new interest...
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing rapidly and could reshape productivity, economic growth, jobs, and living standards. But AI gains are unlikely to be distributed evenly across countries. How quickly economies ad...
The United States took a big step toward greater state ownership or control of the economy—a form of socialism—in 2025. This change is occurring under unified Republican domination of the US government, not under a Democ...