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With no clear plan to curb government spending in the US or in Australia, investors are pushing up interest rates to decade highs.
What exactly are they? And why do politicians care so much about them?
How to read the signals in the markets.
The US depends heavily on global bond markets to fund its public spending.
With no single dominant power waiting to take over from the US, the impacts of the next financial crisis could have catastrophic impacts around the world.
Rates are now higher than after Liz Truss’s 2022 mini-budget.
Ghana’s sovereign risk has been downgraded to near junk status by ratings agencies in recent times.
There are a number of reasons why Ghana’s domestic borrowing is more expensive than foreign debt.
A market crash may be more likely than at any time in a generation.
Precedent suggests that what’s happened in the US will lead to a recession, but maybe it’ll be different this time.
Italy’s economy is verging on bankrupt and its election results have dealt a hammer blow to the prospects of fixing things. The best option, financially at least, may be to put someone else at the helm.
South Africa has made some progress in fixing problems identified by ratings agencies. But there are a number of outstanding issues that might mean the country is given ‘junk’ status.
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Professor of Economics, Monash University
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PhD Candidate in Economics, SOAS, University of London
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Lecturer in Economics, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Ghana
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Associate Lecturer, University of Aberdeen
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Professor in Finance, University of Stirling
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Professor of Banking, Bangor University
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Lecturer in Banking and Finance Law, Queen Mary University of London
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Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City St George's, University of London
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Head of Department of Economics, Finance & Accounting, Brunel University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Economics / Director of the Institute of European Finance, Bangor University
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Lecturer in Economics, Macroeconomics and Mathematical Economics, University of the Witwatersrand