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Is an election really bad for the economy?

We are often told that the economy goes on hold in the lead-up to the election, a Westpac economist thinks it's a bit of an urban legend.

A Path to a New Reserve Currency

The reform of the international monetary system has been a subject of constant debate, reflecting widespread dissatisfaction with the dollar-based and US-controlled arrangements that have prevailed since World War II. The United States is very much attached to its privileged and dominant position, and is unwilling to seriously contemplate any changes to it. The rest of the world is increasingly uneasy with the way the US handles its dominance.

Ethiopia’s decision to join the New Development Bank: unlocking new avenues for development financing  

By Amanuel Tadesse The global development finance architecture is undergoing a profound transformation. As developing countries seek greater access to affordable, sustainable, and diversified sources of financing, new multilateral institutions are emerging to complement traditional international financial mechanisms. Among the most prominent of these institutions is the New Development Bank (NDB), established by the BRICS []

Liberty’s Decline under Majority Rule

Once we legitimise rule by the majority, we open the floodgates to the plunder of the better-off by the worse-off. In the end this strangles the productiveness of the state

[Economic Essay Contest] Asymmetric realities, divergent solutions: Comparing AI governance in Korean and Mexican financial inclusion

[Economic Essay Contest] Asymmetric realities, divergent solutions: Comparing AI governance in Korean and Mexican financial inclusion

Congress is fast-tracking a bill to bring Europe’s failing labor union model to US shores

By the European Union’s own admission, its competitiveness and prosperity are foundering and rapidly falling behind the U.S.’s. It’s hard to imagine it wise for the United States to embrace any portion of Europe’s economic model, especially when it involves inserting the government into union contract negotiations. The Faster Labor Contracts Act bypassed committee for []

COMMENTARY | Building the economic and financial architecture of the Asian Century 

HISTORY shows that lasting economic transformation is never driven by production alone. Every period of sustained prosperity has been supported by institutions capable of mobilizing capital, encouraging innovation, protecting investment,

The money runs out: Socialism, on the rise in NYC, is being routed elsewhere

Follow the money, and it is clear why socialism is vanishing from Latin America and thriving in America's blue cities at the same time.

Contemporary Capitalism Is Brutally Competitive

Advocates of the “political capitalism” and “monopoly capital” theories argue that capitalism is stagnating, increasingly unproductive, and dominated by rent-seeking. These are flawed diagnoses that put socialist strategy on the wrong track.

Is The Economist always wrong?

We used artificial intelligence to test the accuracy of our forecasts

As Go The Peace Talks, So Goes The Economy

As Go The Peace Talks, So Goes The Economy

नीतिगत भरोसा चाहियो

सरकारको लक्ष्य पनि आर्थिक समृद्धि नै हो। औसत सात प्रतिशत आर्थिक वृद्धिदर हासिल गर्दै पाँच वर्षमा प्रतिव्यक्ति आय तीन हजार अमेरिकी डलर पुर्‍याउने र करिब ६६ खर्ब रुपैयाँको अर्थतन्त्रलाई १०० खर्ब रुपैयाँसम्म विस्तार गर्ने सरकारको लक्ष्यले यही संकेत गर्छ। तर, यो लक्ष्य निजी क्षेत्रसँगको सहकार्यविना सम्भव छैन। विगत ६ वर्षदेखि अर्थतन्त्र शिथिल छ। निजी क्षेत्रको []

Mark Carney vowed free trade within Canada by this month. It’s still not happening

There is debate among economists about how much of an economic boost the elimination of provincial trade barriers would bring, but there's no doubt we're leaving money, jobs and good wine on the table

Institutional Trend Following Plan

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The System Is Drying Up: Exposing the rigged game that is central bank policy

(NaturalNews) The System Is Drying Up: Exposing the Wealth Transfer That's Destroying the Middle Class points out that the Federal Reserve's money printing an...

This Industrial Revolution Is Not Like the Last One

Policymakers’ approach to automation won’t work for AI.

Side-eyeing the ’90s summer trend

Wistful overtures to an easier decade are willfully ignoring financial realities

Socialism in the West: Ignorance, Unearned Wealth, and Resentment

Socialism in the West: Ignorance, Unearned Wealth, and Resentment

Give Impetus To SEZs

Achieving higher and inclusive economic growth has been the goal of every nation. For this, countries adopt economic str...

Ajomale-McWord: Nigeria’s Reforms Are Reopening States To Foreign Investment, Economic Autonomy

Founder of Global AfriDiplomats Ajomale-McWord says ongoing reforms are empowering Nigerian states to attract foreign investment and drive regional economic development independently.

Financial Stability is the Result of Strategic Planning and Effective Risk Management: Ruben Badalyan

The rapidly changing economic environment requires banks to possess not only agility but also strategic approaches. The role of financial

David Rogers: It is possible to deliver new homes and retain the character of our villages

A planning system can only function properly when the wider economy supports investment, controls inflation and rewards enterprise. The post David Rogers: It is possible to deliver new homes and retain the character of our villages appeared first on Conservative Home.

Opinion| South Sudan’s financial reset: Currency swaps, hybrid regimes, and going digital

The global financial architecture is undergoing its most profound structural realignment since Bretton Woods. Buffeted The post Opinion| South Sudan’s financial reset: Currency swaps, hybrid regimes, and going digital appeared first on Radio Tamazuj.

How Much Inequality Is There? Depends on How It's Measured

For many years, some economists and politicians have painted income equality as a major threat to our economy and well-being. As usual, they understand neither inequality nor economics.

Who is Doing the Destabilising and Why?

Troy Southgate Jul 03, 2026 I WOULD normally view the breakdown of society as a prerequisite for the eventual collapse of the capitalist system, but present events – not to mention the main players – suggest that increasing disorder will merely feed the technocratic agenda and this is [] The post Who is Doing the Destabilising and Why? first appeared on Attack the System.

The New ‘Cash-Poor’ Is Six Figures and Up

Why millions of working Americans—including those earning more than 100,000 a year—are finding it harder than ever to stay financially afloat.

Tinubu: Economic reforms have ended states’ reliance on salary borrowing

FG flags off Babban-Lamba–Sharam Phase II Road in Plateau By Golok Nanmwa JOS — President Bola Tinubu has said his administration’s economic reforms have freed state governments from borrowing to pay workers’ salaries, attributing the development to increased revenue allocations that now enable states to meet salary obligations, settle gratuities and undertake development projects. The [] The post Tinubu: Economic reforms have ended states’ reliance on salary borrowing appeared first on Vanguard News.

America at 250: The 3 Economic Headaches That Haven't Changed Since 1976

America at 250: The 3 Economic Headaches That Haven't Changed Since 1976

We woz wrong about oil

The market bested us. But for The Economist, there is no shame in that

PEARLENE GOVENDER | How global megatrends are reshaping offshore investment strategies

Globalisation is in reverse and AI now dominates much of what we do. These changes and others mean resilience is the key word for portfolios, writes Pearlene Govender

15 decisions made by a handful of people that quietly shaped the modern economy

The infrastructure of the global economy was built in specific rooms by specific people making choices that still govern how money moves today

California's Self-Sabotage Is a National Disgrace

What happened to the nation's most richly naturally endowed, and once best-governed, state? The left took total control - and created a neo-feudal society that's hardly democratic.

Trump Hit With Devastating Poll as Republicans Lose Faith

Truth SocialEven more Republicans now think the economy is headed in the wrong direction.An affordability crisis is now in effect, according to 95 percent of Americans, as high gas and grocery prices hammer people’s wallets.The new Harris Poll revealed that just 27 percent of Republicans think the economy is traveling in a positive direction, down from 49 percent in February.Read more at The Daily Beast.

We Were Founded on Anti-Monopoly Principles

Zephyr Teachout The premises of the American democratic vision must be applied to the economy if we are to be free in all alreas of life. The post We Were Founded on Anti-Monopoly Principles appeared first on The Nation.

Data dive: Kill switch and catch-up – can Europe close the sovereignty gap?

As the US demonstrates it can wield an AI ‘kill switch’, the EU and UK unleash a wave of sovereign tech measures. Can state-led industrial policy bridge a 2tn revenue chasm?

An AI Sovereign Wealth Windfall? First, Find the Windfall

Locating the source of new economic growth that will be generated by AI is trickier than it seems. The post An AI Sovereign Wealth Windfall? First, Find the Windfall appeared first on World Politics Review.

Serbia possesses great potential for cooperation with BRICS countries — minister

The vector of economic development is increasingly shifting toward the East and the BRICS nations, Nenad Popovic noted

The Social Security Crisis Is Even Worse Than We Thought

In avoiding political discomfort for decades, Congress and presidents have set the nation up for an economic and social catastrophe.

The DSA Wants to Know What Has Capitalism Given Us. Here's the Answer.

The DSA Wants to Know What Has Capitalism Given Us. Here's the Answer.

[In This Economy] Ubenomics

Kaya ba nating masabayan ang ube craze?

Britain marks Brexit’s 10th anniversary with an economy 4%-8% smaller than if it never voted to leave

Ten years after 52 voted to leave the EU, economists say trade, investment and productivity losses are too large to blame on COVID or the Iran war.

Branko Milanovic, economist: 'There will be no return to neoliberal ideology'

Asian shock, Western decline and the rise of national-liberalism: The expert on global inequality analyzes the fractures of modern capitalism in an interview with Le Monde.

Cost of living crisis is reshaping EU politics as migration and climate lose steam

The shift from migration and climate wars to wallet issues is redrawing Europe’s political map, empowering forces that want a far bigger state at the very moment public coffers are already stretched.

Democracy, Inequality And Social Security

Steven Hill, Democracy SOS. \America’s greatest anti-poverty program has long been the great income leveller in an unequal economy and democracy. And now it faces an existential threat. A financial tsunami of giant proportions is heading our way. It is due to arrive in about six years, and if it strikes with full force it will []