The persistence of food insecurity in Canada is a policy choice. By not doing more to improve the adequacy and stability of household income, governments are choosing to let food insecurity fester.
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Prices remain high and there is much more the government could do to help people.
So you thought raising interest rates brought down inflation? The reality is a bit more debatable.
The governor’s remarks about the board “not hesitating” to raise rates further aren’t as clear cut as they seem.
Inflation has slipped from 6% to 5.4%, but the price of petrol climbed 7.2% in the September quarter. Much depends on what the RBA thinks will happen from here on.
We need to start cutting rates, but there’s something that has to happen first.
There’s a need to support production and efficiencies in supply and distribution of essential goods and services in Kenya.
Rates are now higher than after Liz Truss’s 2022 mini-budget.
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.
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?
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