Tag: Interest Rates
Inflation, unemployment, the housing crisis and a possible recession: Two economists...
D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University and Rodney Ramcharan, University of Southern California
With the current U.S. inflation rate...
A brief history of the mortgage, from its roots in ancient...
Michael J. Highfield, Mississippi State University
The average interest rate for a new U.S. 30-year fixed-rate mortgage topped 7%...
The whole world is facing a debt crisis – but richer...
Patrick E. Shea, University of Glasgow
Countries across the world are drifting towards a debt crisis. Economic slowdowns and...
Fed keeps focus on US economy as the world tilts toward...
D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University
The U.S. Federal Reserve holds inordinate sway over the world’s economies – yet...
Fed likely to stay the course on interest rate hike as...
Edouard Wemy, Clark University
The Federal Reserve received mixed news in the latest data on U.S. inflation as it...
Is the US in a recession? Well, that depends on whom...
D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University
The U.S. economy shrank at an annual rate 0.9% from April through June,...
Dispirited homebuyers show why Fed’s unprecedented fight against inflation is beginning...
Mark Flannery, University of Florida
I’ve studied finance and financial markets since the 1970s, and I have never seen...
1970s-style stagflation now playing on central bankers’ minds
John Hawkins, University of Canberra
“Stagflation” is an ugly word for an ugly situation – the unpleasant combination of...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
