There are 6 ways an unsustainable debt path can come to an end: faster economic growth, lower interest rates, default, ...

Seemingly less audacious than some of its other actions, the Trump administration wants to bring down the yield on 10-year Treasury securities. But that yield is a price set by the markets and is ...

A cautious Federal Reserve kept policy rates unchanged during the first half of 2025. It was trying to ascertain whether the Trump administration’s protectionist measures would result in a one-time ...

Market veteran Lawrence McDonald has a stark warning regarding a recent GOP proposal spearheaded by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) that calls for nixing federal interest payments to banks. The post shared by ...

The Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) is set to return to the Norwegian capital June 3-5 for its 16th installment since 2009. The conference series, hosted by the New York-based non-profit Human Rights ...

There are several definitions of financial repression ― and the repressors and the repressed tend to see things differently. But what financial repression usually involves is keeping interest rates ...

Morgan Stanley argues that authorities will continue to drive negative real rates, making high-yielding peripheral government debt – which banks are compelled to hold – a good buy. Justin Knight, ...

As a person living in today’s world we have to keep expanding our lexicon of terms since there appears to be a new one created every single day. Some of the terms are manufactured out of “Political ...

Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The trade war unleashed by Donald Trump may be just the precursor for much larger turmoil in the global economy.

Pension funds are feeling pressure on both sides of their balance sheets as a result of the sustained period of low rates. Squeezed yields have undermined returns and, perhaps more importantly, low ...

LONDON, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Fears that governments will raid the savings of citizens to reduce debt burdens are driving investors to take greater risks with their money to outpace erosion of their ...