Economy

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ASIA: India has signed contracts to export about 500,000 tonnes of wheat in recent days, traders said, cashing in on...

COMMENT: Dear Martin, In addition to the 4 demands listed in your blog “Putin offers peace…” there is a fifth;...

In light of recent high inflation, the Federal Reserve has accelerated plans to tighten its monetary policy. Many in the...

The latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the total number of job...

All housing is affordable housing. If developers build cheap housing, the price of all housing except the very most luxurious...

Smith’s review on Mandeville’s has an interesting presentation: In ‘The Theory of Moral Sentiments,’ Smith reviews the great systems of...

Summary AIER’s Leading Indicators Index posted a surprising 17-point drop in February, more than erasing the solid 13-point gain in...

By Eswar Prasad

By Federico Filippini, Eduardo Levy YeyatiAbstract In this paper we provide an initial assessment of the economic losses related to...