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"It is not enough in life that one succeed," the droll economist John Kenneth Galbraith is supposed to have said. "Others ...

A number of economists agreed it would be worrying if higher bond yields meant investors had lost confidence in the Fed’s ability to bring inflation fully under control. New rate cuts would be off the ...

With a massive core of the consuming classes under pressure, the inevitable is happening: tapering consumer demand, the consequences of which radiate to all parts of the economy ...

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The Houthis control most of Yemen’s western coast, affording them prime access to ships on either side of the narrow strait.

The details of Made in China 2025 are laid out in hundreds of official documents. A so-called “Green Book”, published by a ...

W hatever you think of Donald Trump, his inauguration on January 20th is the capstone of the greatest ever comeback in ...

Renault’s electric supermini, the R5, has won this year’s Car of the Year award, leading the vote count from the 60 jurors in ...

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The St. Louis Federal Reserve crunched the numbers on 21 years of economist forecasts collected by the Blue Chip Survey of Professional Forecasters. The regional Fed tracked the widely followed ...

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