Interest rates are a tricky balancing act, as Fed Chair Jerome Powell knows well. AP Photo/Alex BrandonThe Federal Reserve is in a nearly impossible spot right now.
Go directly to jail? Not quite. Sergey Chayko/Getty Images PlusWith the indictment on Oct.
Women typically earn less than men per hour that they work. MoMo Productions/DigitalVision via Getty ImagesWomen in the U.S. typically earned 85% as much as men for every hour they spent working in 2024. However, working women are faring much better than their moms and grandmothers did 40 years ago.
The 2025 summer football transfer window was a record for the English Premier League with teams spending £3.9 billion on transfer fees for new players. That’s more than the top divisions of France, Germany, Italy and Spain combined.
Aspiring autocrats are increasingly pressuring businesses to co-operate with their quest for wealth and power, such as by demanding they direct corporate funds towards their personal enrichment or fire personnel who are critical of them.
Republican-leaning economists tend to predict stronger economic growth when a Republican is president than Democrats do – and because of this partisan optimism, their forecasts end up being less accurate.
BearFotos/ShutterstockAmerican voters often rank inflation as the most important issue facing the US. But something odd has happened to inflationary expectations since Donald Trump became president in January. Americans believe inflation is much higher than it is, and are bracing themselves for further increases.
In his first real electoral test since sweeping to power in October 2023, the party of Argentina’s right-wing populist president, Javier Milei, has suffered a landslide defeat. The result can be read as an emphatic reminder of the remarkable endurance in Argentina of Peronism – the movement named after former president Juan Perón.
CandyBox Images/ShutterstockAfter the resignation of Angela Rayner, the UK government faces an urgent question: what will happen to its flagship employment rights bill?
The majority of Gaza's urban sites will have to be rebuilt from the ground up. Anas-Mohammed/ShutterstockThe US and Israel have sparked international condemnation over their leaked vision for the reconstruction of a shattered Gaza. The urban development plan seems to have evolved since its emergence earlier in the year.
