Inflation Is Stubborn. Is the Federal Budget Deficit Making It Worse?
Economists are divided over whether the growing amount of federal borrowing is fueling demand and driving up prices.
Economists are divided over whether the growing amount of federal borrowing is fueling demand and driving up prices.
Who's coming next? The head of the LVMH empire Bernard Arnault will need a succession plan. Frederic Legrand - COMEO/ShutterstockIn the high end world of luxury and heritage, many brands are still owned and managed by the original founding family. The issue of succession planning, therefore, can be particularly important.
One hundred and twenty years after the Entente Cordiale, Britain and France are forging a new alliance.
The original 1904 agreement paved the way for a stronger relationship between the two countries, but this time the nations aim to use their partnership to patch up European commitment to Ukraine and exert pressure on the US.
Stubborn inflation has led traders to forecast far fewer rate cuts by the Federal Reserve than just a few months ago.
Forget pipes and saucepans. EinstockCopper is in the headlines after Australian mining giant BHP made a bid for UK-based rival Anglo American, valuing the company at US$39 billion (£31 billion).
US secretary of state Antony Blinken fired a warning salvo towards China during a G7 foreign ministers’ meeting on the Italian island of Capri on April 20. The US’s top diplomat said that China is a “prime contributor” of weapons-related technology to Russia, and was fuelling what is the “biggest threat to European security since the end of the Cold War”.
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Gross domestic product, adjusted for inflation, increased at a 1.6 percent annual rate in the first three months of the year.
Cows typically get over avian flu in a couple of weeks, but it's an economic blow for farms. AP Photo/Charlie LitchfieldThe discovery of fragments of avian flu virus in milk sold in U.S.
What gives a task meaning? rangizzz/ShutterstockWork is an inescapable feature of the modern world. Most of us, except for a lucky few, spend a significant portion of our lives working. If this is the case, we may as well try and make it meaningful.