> People all around the world live or die based on the whims of the commodities market. We need to discard the idea that markets are an _...Read More_

"Jim O'Neill gives four reasons for questioning whether economic forecasters' current pessimism is still justified."

"If Russia were a business, it would be headed for bankruptcy."

"Michael R. Strain touts a US-backed plan that would sustain output while denying the Kremlin money for its war machine."

"Mohamed A. El-Erian explains how the West's strategy of muddling through could result in the worst of all possible worlds."

"Kyiv’s success against Moscow forces us to reexamine our assumptions about what it means to be powerful."

>"The dislocation of global fuel markets after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has boosted the cost of shipping products such _...Read More_

>"China has the power to take countermeasures against Washington’s ‘arbitrary’ forced labour law, including imposing its _...Read More_

"Joseph E. Stiglitz thinks the gravest threat facing America is its own mounting economic, political, and social failures."

>"The OECD slashed its outlook for global growth this year to 3% from the 4.5% it predicted in December"

"The attacks came amid denials by Russian President Vladimir Putin that the global food shortage was brought on by the Russia-Ukraine conflict."

This is a good column. Also worth noting Dems’ “solution” here— antitrust— isn’t going to actually do anything and no credible economist that I can identify thinks it will.

Hippolyte Fofack warns that central bankers’ belated efforts to curb price increases will carry a high economic cost. "Leading central banks are now deploying tools that should help to contain growing price pressures. But these measures _...Read More_