Tag: Interest Rates
How raising interest rates curbs inflation – and what could possibly...
Rodney Ramcharan, University of Southern California
After about three decades of relatively low inflation, consumer prices are skyrocketing again.
Inflation, workforce participation and real wages: 3 key indicators for monitoring...
Veronika Dolar, SUNY Old Westbury; Marlon Williams, University of Dayton, and Melanie G. Long, The College of Wooster
The U.S. economy ended 2021 with...
I’ve fine-tuned a tool that advises the Bank of England what...
Costas Milas, University of Liverpool
Interest rates were remarkably stable in ancient societies. It has been argued that...
Racial income and wealth gaps are huge – but the Fed...
Paul Wachtel, New York University
Central bankers and economists from around the world are convening remotely for the annual...
The zombie company problem and what it means for our economies...
Daniel Merino, The Conversation and Gemma Ware, The Conversation
In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, why some economists...
Huge government debts mean Canada is robbing its kids
Jerome Gessaroli, British Columbia Institute of Technology
Before the pandemic, the combined federal and provincial Canadian debt totalled $1.4 trillion. And since then, this debt...
Huge government debts mean Canada is robbing its kids
Jerome Gessaroli, British Columbia Institute of Technology
Before the pandemic, the combined federal and provincial Canadian debt totalled $1.4 trillion. And since then, this debt...
Changing the Federal Reserve mandate could provide a down payment to...
William M. Rodgers III, Rutgers University
The job of slicing up the economic pie in the U.S. has traditionally fallen to Congress, with the Federal...
EXPLORING NATURE
Geothermal energy has huge potential to generate clean power – including...
Moones Alamooti, University of North Dakota
As energy use rises and the planet warms, you might have dreamed of...
