Tag: US Federal Reserve
Interest rates are likely to rise by much less than most...
Costas Milas, University of Liverpool
Inflation was already a serious problem thanks to the bottlenecks in the global supply...
America’s cost of ‘defending freedom’ in Ukraine: Higher food and gas...
William Hauk, University of South Carolina
Americans may be tempted to view the war in Ukraine as an unfortunate,...
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.
What’s insider trading and why it’s a big problem
Alexander Kurov, West Virginia University and Marketa Wolfe, Skidmore College
There’s a growing bipartisan push to prohibit members of...
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...
What is the Fed taper? An economist explains how the Federal...
Edouard Wemy, Clark University
Tapering refers to the Federal Reserve policy of unwinding the massive purchases of Treasury bonds...
The euro is plunging – and probably won’t bounce back soon
Keith Pilbeam, City, University of London
The euro has weakened against the US dollar since the beginning of 2021,...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
