Initial claims for regular state unemployment insurance increased by 23,000 for the week ending February 12, coming in at 248,000 (see first chart). That is the first increase following three...

A National Terrorism Advisory Service bulletin released last week identified the number one terroristic threat to Americans as “the proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine...

As Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr once quipped: “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” Members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) can surely relate. Despite...

Manuel Nogales and Félix Medina talk about their experience working under the eruption of a volcano in Canary Islands (Spain), while sharing their mixed feelings on the research opportunity and...

By Carol Graham, Fred DewsCarol Graham, the Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow and director of research in Global Economy and Development, who is an expert on a range of issues related...

By Michel SidibéThe global roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines to date is neither inclusive nor adequately planned: Many countries are already administering boosters while the rest of the world is being...

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the world’s vulnerabilities to health and economic ruin from outbreaks of disease. Moreover, the crisis has also revealed fundamental weaknesses and contradictions in global...

Much of Africa’s economic recovery hinges on the world’s ability to contain the COVID-19 virus in the long term—as evidenced by the reactive travel bans that punished Africa for the...

By Donald Kohn, David DollarDonald Kohn, senior fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings and a former vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board, joins David Dollar to explore a range...

By Glenn Fine When the COVID-19 pandemic spread in March 2020, Congress quickly enacted legislation, the  Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the CARES Act), which provided over $2...