TOKYO--The Japanese economy narrowly ​returned to growth in the final quarter of 2025, largely defying the U.S. tariff hit and giving the central bank room to keep raising rates. The modest expansion ...

An inflationary gap can occur due to increased consumer spending. Learn how it’s calculated and what affects it.

The Federal Reserve's current monetary-policy setting threatens U.S. economic growth that otherwise is being "underwritten" by a range of Trump administration policies including tax cuts, Fed Governor ...

Gold & silver are in a secular bull market. Learn why pullbacks may be buy zones, what’s driving demand, and 2032–33 targets.

Critics of the Austrian Business Cycle Theory claim that capital investors over time will no longer be fooled by artificially-low interest rates triggered by ...

Discover non-standard monetary policies, those beyond traditional methods, and their role in economic recovery; see examples like quantitative easing and negative rates.

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For more than 80 years, the U.S. dollar has been central to the international financial system, in no small part because it is the primary global reserve currency. But as in politics, narratives are ...

On Sept 26, the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee held a meeting to analyze and study the current economic situation and make further arrangements for economic work, ...

In this episode, I will review the different CBN monetary policy interventions in 2025, how the policies fared in the year ending, and project into the future. Like yesterday, the past year is gone.

Japan is preparing to issue new government bonds worth approximately $189 billion to help finance a record-breaking national budget for the next fiscal year, according to a draft budget reviewed by ...

Martin Schulz, chief policy economist at Fujitsu, breaks down the Bank of Japan's latest move to raise rates for the second time this year. However he doesn't expect the BOJ to lift borrowing costs ...