Tag: US Federal Reserve
Why the Fed has no choice but to keep cutting interest...
Andreas Kern, Georgetown University
The U.S. Federal Reserve is stuck between an apparently booming economy and a financial crisis that might be right around the...
Amazon and other ‘superstar’ companies could give all American workers a...
Carolin Schellhorn, St. Joseph's University
The latest employment data, released on Oct. 5, point to a persistent economic puzzle: The unemployment rate is the lowest...
Recent stock market sell-off foreshadows a new Great Recession
Steven Pressman, Colorado State University and Robert H. Scott III, Monmouth University
In early February, concerns about inflation and rising interest rates sent global financial...
How Trump’s nominee for the Fed could turn central banking on...
Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University
President Donald Trump on July 10 nominated Randal Quarles to be one of the seven governors of the...
Deutsche Bank turmoil shows risks of weakening bank capital standards
Anjan V. Thakor, Washington University in St Louis
Deutsche Bank, a venerable 146-year-old bank whose very name symbolizes the German financial system, has recently found...
2015, the year that was: economics and business
Bryan Keogh, The Conversation
As we approach 2016, we look back at the big stories of The Conversation’s economics and business coverage over the past...
Why interest rates are taking divergent paths in Europe and the...
Jagjit Chadha, University of Kent
The prospect that the central banks of the US and the eurozone will soon make opposing moves on policy rates...
EXPLORING NATURE
The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states...
Jennifer Morgan, Tufts University
Two years ago, countries around the world set a goal of “transitioning away from fossil...
