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After pushing its economy to the brink, Egypt gets a bail-out. But a record-setting investment from the UAE will not fix its chronic problems | ... (2024)
Patricia Bullrich and Javier Milei are rising in the polls for this year’s presidential election | The Americas The annual inflation rate, of 11... (2023)
Rising rates are hurting some of its brightest economic stars. Some of the continent’s brightest economic stars are in serious trouble (2023)
The fund must get tough on obstructive creditors, but save them a seat at the table | Leaders (2023)
As covid-19 rages, many poorer people can no longer afford enough food | The Americas Brazilians are increasingly going hungry… (2021)
Poor countries need more help, but it should be transparent and targeted | Leaders (2021)
These engines of regional growth will struggle with state funding cuts, fewer foreign students and destroyed household finances. (2020)
And now the covid-19 pandemic is precipitating a split, says Matthieu Favas (2020)
By Liz McCormick , Saleha Mohsin , and Alexandre Tanzi January 28, 2019, 12:00 AM EST Updated on January 28, 2019, 7:39 AM EST Auction boosts ... (2019)
RUDI DORNBUSCH, a renowned economist who died in 2002, said there were two sorts of currency crisis. The pre-1990s kind is slow. It starts with an ... (2018)
In September, the Sensex has already shed over 2,000 points till now. (2018)
Virtual currencies from such games as RuneScape are prized in a country whose real money is worthless. (2018)
ASK the chief investment officer of a fund-management firm how to spread your investments and you will be told to put so much in stocks, so much in... (2018)
The general public might understand what causes busts better than the wonks. (2018)
At a time of mounting uncertainty in Europe, the country has defied critics who insisted on austerity as the answer to the Continent’s economic and... (2018)
ASK the chief investment officer of a fund-management firm how to spread your investments and you will be told to put so much in stocks, so much in... (2018)
DURING the worst days of the euro-zone debt crisis, the fear was that bond-market turmoil in places such as Greece and Spain would spread to Italy.... (2018)
Brussels isn’t going to play ball with Rome’s populists. (2018)
IT WAS an announcement Mauricio Macri hoped never to have to make. On May 8th Argentina’s exhausted-looking president declared that Argentina was s... (2018)
Overpaid, over-important and over-geared "BUSINESS school graduates do not all want to work in investment banking these days. The industry does ... (2018)
This week “The Economist explains” is given over to economics. For each of six days until Saturday, this blog will publish a short explainer on a s... (2018)
Three months after Hurricane Maria, the island is still in crisis. Its people know their future depends on more than mending what Maria destroyed. (2017)
Virtual currencies from such games as RuneScape are prized in a country whose real money is worthless. (2017)
U.S. student loan debt now equals the size of the $1.3 trillion U.S. high-yield corporate bond market, presenting investors with a whole different ... (2017)
GREECE’S marathon crisis is at least instructive. Past flare-ups have illustrated a textbook’s worth of economic principles. The latest episode—a d... (2017)
ALMOST a decade after the global financial crisis, aftershocks rumble on. This month Banco Popular, Spain’s sixth-biggest bank by assets, was bough... (2017)
BLESSED with tropical beaches, bossa nova and balletic footballers, Brazil seems like a marvellous place to be young. It is an even better place to... (2017)
Not the country you know "MAKESHIFT stalls appear on every country road in Brazil, usually laden with bananas and coconuts. On the back roads of... (2017)
CFR, Council on Foreign Relations, 2017: "This CFR Backgrounder looks at the role of the U.S. Federal Reserve. The role of the Federal Reserve ha... (2017)
CoinDesk unpacks and explains Fibonacci retracements, a tool used to predict potential price support and resistance, for crypto traders. (2018)
Rampant inflation, a booming black market for US dollars and crippling debt - welcome to Argentina, one of the world's most dysfunctional economies... (2023)
French President Emmanuel Macron’s government invoked a special provision called Article 49 Thursday to push through a controversial pensions overh... (2023)
After WWI, Europe's leaders established greater economic ties to help prevent future continental conflict. Now, more than half a century later, the... (2018)
Greece is in a state of economic and financial crisis that's dominated global headlines this week. Vox's Matt Yglesias explains the real roots of t... (2018)
Margin Call is a movie on how investment banks reacted to the impending collapse of the US real estate market in 2008, but like other finance films... (2022)
Marginal Revolution University Published on Dec 5, 2017 Tyler Cowen puts Keynesian, monetarist, real business cycle, and Austrian theories to w... (2018)
Marginal Revolution University Published on May 23, 2017 In this video, we examine the causes behind the Great Depression with the help of the ... (2018)
Marginal Revolution University Published on Aug 9, 2016 There’s already been much discussion over what fueled the Great Recession of 2008. In t... (2018)
After more than 25 years, Cuba is doing away with its dual currency system and getting rid of the Cuban Convertible Peso. What does the change mean... (2021)
Listen to this episode from Go For Broke on Spotify. Venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs chasing big payouts helped inflate the dot-com ... (2020)
On this day in 2008, an 85-year-old investment bank became the very public face of the financial crisis. Only a $29 billion loan guarantee from the... (2018)
Yesterday we examined the financials that lead to the fall of Bear Stearns, and now we're going to look at the human side: A couple of unlikely Wal... (2018)
NPR podcast- 3/19/2018 “former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner, former president of the New... (2018)
"This is the story of the Great Depression as told through the lives of the central bankers who tried and failed to deal with the crisis. As one, M... (2018)