Europe’s banks are in credit-crunch mode. The ECB’s decision to keep interest rates unchanged is meant to help, but it also raises the white flag on inflation.
A year from the 2024 election, commentators battle each other over the state of the U.S. economy. We go beyond the punditry. We have the facts.
More than three decades after the end of the communist GDR, the successor to the former state party is being ripped apart by internal divisions.
The proposed EU corporate profits tax will either become a power tool against recalcitrant member states or the most unpredictable cost item in any corporation’s finances.
Europe will be facing a recession. The question is whether or not rising unemployment will come with higher or lower inflation rates—and monetary conservatism or monetary expansion.
At home, Biden is unpopular, assailed by legal difficulties, and widely regarded as too physically and mentally incompetent to do his job.
Reactions to the Hamas massacre show that we too have to fight for our democratic civilisation
Prize laureate Claudia Goldin’s economic research claims that women can be liberated with a birth-control pill.
There is a passivity about poll-watching, as if we were ancients reading the runes or chicken entrails in a bid to foretell a future that is beyond our control.
It is time for Europe’s lawmakers to act to save their economy from a long, cold, tough winter.
