Petrol prices have pushed inflation up. At its next meeting, the Reserve Bank board is going to have to decide if that warrants an increase in interest rates.
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The IMF’s US57 billion bailout to Argentina in 2018 was the biggest loan it has ever extended.
In this podcast, Treasurer Jim Chalmers canvasses inflation, migration, the cost of living pressures on households and concerns about China’s economy
Why is monetary policy outside the realm of politics? What are the social ramifications of our current monetary policy system? What alternatives exist?
With Donald Trump absent again, Republican presidential hopefuls took potshots at each other but agreed that Bidenomics isn’t cutting it.
The government wants offshore wind to form the backbone of the UK’s future electricity system – but a key auction has delivered no new projects.
The bank’s review into its failure to predict the inflation surge misses a second equally important blunder a few months later.
Universities face growing costs but no prospect of increased funding.
News of a soft landing may be premature.
Put to the test in the past two years, the idea of a “natural” rate of unemployment has failed. There’s no need to push unemployment up to any particular rate to bring down inflation.
The world’s central banks face a range of dilemmas, not least whether high inflation – and therefore high interest rates – will become permanent.
CEO pay often attracts more outrage than footballers’ record wages – what does this say about the value we place on different jobs and skills?
Official data confirms what we are all experiencing - the cost of most things has jumped. So how is this measured and where are the biggest increases?
With an inflation rate peaking at just 4.4%, Japan seems to be getting something right about managing economic pressures. How does it do this, and should New Zealand revisit its own strategies?
Without governance reforms, Zimbabwe will continue to face an economic crisis.
Why it’s time to reconsider an idea that was popular with economists during the great depression.
Many Canadians are puzzled by food prices remaining high despite the Bank of Canada’s efforts to curb inflation. If interest rate policies aren’t bringing food prices down, then what will?
Inflation has slipped faster than the Reserve Bank thought it would, and the underlying rate is down to 5.4%. The bank is likely to tread cautiously from here on.
Fixing Nigeria’s food inflation goes beyond declaring a state of emergency.
Research shows that inflation is not the same for everyone, and neither are its effects.
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