The pace of the rise in US consumer prices accelerated from 1.7% in February to 2.6% in March for the biggest year-on-year increase since August 2018.
By Alfred Kammer Español, Français One year into the pandemic, Europe finds itself at another turning point. New waves of infection are hitting the continent, requiring...
Between January 1970 and December 2020 on average changes in money supply preceded changes in real economic activity by fourteen months, as depicted by real gross domestic product...
by Jonathan D. Ostry In some Asia-Pacific countries, the unpleasant memory of the pandemic is receding; elsewhere, second or third waves of infections are raging. A...
UK GDP misses forecast European stocks are heading broadly higher in muted trade ahead of key US inflation data. The FTSE is underperforming its peers following...
China's Credit Growth Moderates In April, Putting Credit Impulse In Jeopardy Last Tuesday we reported that "China Credit Impulse Is Set To Collapse As Beijing Orders...
Fed's Bullard Says 75% Vaccination Rate Would "Allow Taper Debate"... Which Could Happen In Just Two Months And just like that the Fed's open-ended tapering discussion...
Key Events This Very Busy Week: CPI, Retail Sales And Q1 Earnings Start Looking at the busy week ahead, the pandemic will remain in focus as...
Recently, the March jobs report showed a whopping 916,000 new jobs. Interestingly, there were some anomalies in the data and millions missing from the official count....
Remembering the Father of Supply-Side Economics Robert Mundell’s theories spawned decades of economic debate and still matter to the big ideas of today. Bruce Bartlett,...
Infrastructure Bills Do Not Lead To Recovery, Only Increased Federal Control Authored by Alt-Market.us' Brandon Smith and originally published at Birch Gold Group, The concept of infrastructure...
Rock-bottom interest rates that have helped prop up the Canadian economy during the pandemic are also helping fuel frenzied activity in the housing market, putting policymakers...
Bubble, Bubble, But Limited Housing Trouble... For Now By Laura Cooper, analyst and writer for Bloomberg Markets Live Global policymakers are weighing in on worrisome inflation. Well,...
WTI crude oil struggles below USD60 Oil prices are mildly lower on the day but are set for over 3% losses across the week. Investors continue...
Powell’s dovish speech sends dollar downwards The US dollar retreat deepened overnight, with its correlation to US Treasury yields laid bare for all to see as...
Monetary Policy In America Is A Mess; Things Are Even Worse In Europe Authored by Brendan Brown via The Mises Institute, High inflation takes off where...
In the last few months, inflation has been a hotter topic than in recent memory. Google trends search intensity for the word “inflation” hit an all-time high (for the last 16...
In Canada’s housing market, scant supply is often fingered as the culprit for soaring prices, but a research report from one of the country’s big banks...
Twenty-fifteen was an important yet completely misunderstood year. The Fed was going to have to become hawkish, according to its models, yet oil prices crashed and...
FOMC Minutes Signal Optimism On Fiscal Plans, Some Officials Fear "Stability Risks" Since The Fed's last statement and press conference (on March 17th), stocks and bonds...
Strong economic data over the last week in the US, Europe and Asia appears to be confirming the perception among investors that a cyclical recovery is...
At 2.5% for the MSCI AC World index, the rise in global equities in March was close to February’s 2.2%. It wasn’t all smooth running, though,...
The second quarter kicked off with the S&P 500 sitting above the 4,000 level for the first time. According to the majority of US Equity Research...
China Credit Impulse Set To Collapse As Beijing Orders Banks To Curtail Loan Growth For Rest Of 2021 One month after global markets underwent a brief...
By Tobias Adrian After enduring a tumultuous 2020, the global economy is finally emerging from the worst phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, albeit with prospects diverging...
By Gita Gopinath عربي, Español, Русский It is one year into the COVID-19 pandemic and the global community still confronts extreme social and economic strain as the...
Key Events This Week: Minutes, Services And Producer Prices Looking at the key events this week which takes place in the usual post payrolls data lull,...
By Philipp Engler, Roberto Piazza and Galen Sher Español, 日本語, Русский Rapid vaccine rollout in the United States and passage of its $1.9 trillion fiscal stimulus package...
CR Note: There is quite a bit of information (and charts) in this article by Matthew Graham at MortgageNewsDaily: Who's Lying About The Housing Market?. Here...
Japan's Economy Is Again Struggling Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog, Japan. the world's third-largest economy is highly dependent on exports and the reality...