Tag: Finance & economics
America is escaping its office crisis
For most people the covid-19 pandemic ended years ago. But not for commercial-property investors and their lenders. Working from home prompted an office...
The threat of deflation stalks Asia’s economies
Just as the inflationary heat is rising again in America, much of Asia is feeling a chill. Leave aside the hotspots—Japan and Bangladesh—and...
Trump’s interest-rate crusade will be self-defeating
There are two ways, the world’s central bankers learned at this year’s Jackson Hole conference, to tame a horse. You can break the...
Gambling or investing? In America, the line is increasingly blurred
Economists and financiers have compared stockmarkets to gambling since 1936, when Keynes warned of “the capital development of a country becom a by-product...
How Trump’s war on the Federal Reserve could do serious damage
Pity the bond trader without Truth Social on their phone. All it took was one after-dinner missive, fired off by the president on...
Assessing the case against Lisa Cook
Criminal investigations do not usually start with tweets. They very rarely start with tweets by government officials asserting someone’s guilt before a charge...
Why you should buy your employer’s shares
It is not hard to see why Jamie Dimon owns a lot of shares in JPMorgan Chase. He is the bank’s boss and...
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Even as China’s economy suffers, stocks soar. What’s going on?
For Chinese investors, the grass is almost always greener elsewhere. The country’s stockmarket chronically underperforms, meaning that local punters look to bourses in,...
Trump “fires” Lisa Cook, escalating his war on the Federal Reserve
Donald Trump has not been shy: he wants interest rates down, fast. For months, the president has berated the Federal Reserve for dithering...
