FINANCIAL MARKETS Borrowing costs for the Chinese yuan in Hong Kong SAR, China posted record jumps across tenors ranging up to a year, as suspected intervention from...
http://blogs.worldbank.org/prospects/global-daily-india-s-industrial-production-falls-unexpectedly
What do we mean when we call an idea or policy ‘neoliberal’? Does the term signify anything other than trends which are simply embedded in the process of capitalist develo...
Ramzan Kadyrov, the 39-year-old strongman who has held the post of president of Russia's Chechen Republic for nine years, rang in the new year by lashing out at Chechen immigr...
http://www.voanews.com/content/russia-opposition-ponders-chechnyas-ramzan-kadyrov/3140533.html
A strong December payroll gain plus upward revisions to November and October suggest the economy is entering 2016 with good momentum, said Robert J. Hughes, senior research f...
http://www.masslive.com/business-news/index.ssf/2016/01/us_rep_james_mcgovern_lauds_strong_jobs.html
John Weeks This post is a selection from a longer report on the state of the UK economy, “The Cracks Begin to Show: A Review of the UK Economy in 2015,” by economists fo...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama delivers his final State of the Union address on Tuesday night to a nation whose economy is far sturdier than it was when he took of...
http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-state-of-union-in-2016-strong-job-market-middling-economy-2016-1
For the world's worst-performing economies, 2016 will only bring more disappointment, say economists surveyed by Bloomberg. The post Good news, kind of. SA didn’t make Blo...
“Ms. Sarsons discovered one group of female economists who enjoyed the same career success as men: those who work alone. Specifically, she says that ‘women who solo author...
http://www.artsjournal.com/2016/01/women-maybe-need-to-stop-doing-teamwork-with-men-anyway.html
The new year brings numerous challenges for the California Legislature. So long as the economy keeps perking along, as separately predicted by economists at Chapman University...
by John Feffer The market was supposed to save the planet. That, at least, was the argument of many economists grappling with the problem of climate change. As fossil fuels b...
By Sylvan Lane / The Hill President Obama will deliver his final State of the Union address next Tuesday, and the economy will likely be a centerpiece. After 63 consecutiv...
economists are still counting on consumer spending to fuel the country’s sluggish economic growth – aided by a resilient labour market and continued low interest rates