Artificial Intelligence, for all of the fear-mongering taking place, simply is a tool that if applied in a free market setting will make our economy stronger,

There are precedents economists can use to guide their forecasts now. Seth Carpenter, global chief economist at Morgan Stanley, said the tariffs imposed during the first Trump administration can help predict how new import taxes could affect the economy.

For the fourth successive year, the Nobel Committee has awarded the prize to economists who have delved into history to answer some of the big questions of our time. It’s the turn of path-breaking res

Powell’s comment landed after five straight months of equity gains and one of the longest stretches in history without a single 2% daily move in the S&P 500. Equal-weighted indexes lag cap-weighted peers, further underscoring the leadership concentration.

In a press conference later that month, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that there had been an “almost predictable overcount” of jobs the past few quarters because of something called “the birth-death” model, which refers to new businesses opening (“births”) and businesses closing permanently (“deaths”).

Through territorial markets, traders and farmers have built something that works. Every African government should see these markets not as a competing model, but as a strategic partner in reaching marginalised farmers and meeting the needs of diverse consumers towards building a strong home-grown economy.

In 1985, the United States made a bold and unexpected move. At the height of the Cold War, it signed its first-ever Free Trade Agreement – not with a fellow superpower or a key regional bloc, but with Israel, a small, economically distressed Middle ...