Inflation has been falling for decades, dipping in many countries below rates targeted by their central banks.
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While the stakes of the upcoming US election are theoretically higher than usual, Julian Howard argues that the relationship between US politics and investment markets is not a direct one.
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Although robots that can perform human labor will put downward pressure on wages in the short term, they also will increase the rate of profit, encouraging more investment and a recovery in the wage rate. It is not so much the economics of new technologies that should worry us, but rather the politics and ethics.
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The oft-repeated idea that COVID-19 is “the great equalizer” is a myth. There is no equality of suffering or equality of sacrifice during a pandemic that is disproportionately hurting the poorest and most vulnerable.
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COVID-19 is not going away, and other dangerous viruses may be coming. This means it’s time to face the grim truth: many of the pandemic’s effects on our economies and societies will be persistent, even permanent.
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Every day, the COVID-19 pandemic costs the world thousands more lives and billions more dollars.
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A malevolent, incompetent Trump administration bears much of the blame for America’s failure to control COVID-19.
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For the last month, the United States has been regularly breaking its daily record for newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, registering more than four million cases overall and closing in on 150,000 deaths.
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Among the many points of tension and distrust that have become features of the deteriorating state of relations between China and the United States,
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There is a growing possibility that the COVID-19 crisis will mark the end of the growth model born four decades ago with the Reagan-Thatcher revolution, China’s embrace of capitalism,
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Four years ago, Kenneth Rogoff, a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, made a powerful case for phasing out paper money.
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July 17th will mark my 17th birthday. It will also mark the 138th day since I have come within six feet of anyone outside of my immediate family.
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NEW YORK – Although it seems like ancient history, it hasn’t been that long since economies around the world began to close down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Another week and more rising global equity markets. But also, more outperformance by the market’s stalwarts —growth, technology and momentum.
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Winter is Coming should now also be a catalyst for America as we head into our national election season alongside a resurgence of the pandemic in our cities and economic hubs,
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The COVID 19 crisis has put government back at the center of things in a way not seen since World War II.
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We already know that the return to work won’t be as simple as flipping the light switch and turning the gears of commerce back on.
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Well before COVID-19 struck, there was another epidemic running rampant in the United States, killing more Americans in 2018 than the coronavirus has killed so far.
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Boston Consulting Group’s latest ‘state of the nation’ on the asset management industry is a data-rich confirmation of the seemingly irresistible rise of private equity and its private asset brethren in real estate, infrastructure and private debt.
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For a time, Germans impressively endured the Covid-19 lock-down, obediently following the instructions of their government on social distancing, while silently submitting to the dictates of reason.
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