Economics Vincent Boland: Growth is out, value is in as investors choose to shun riskWith such a fundamental shift in market conditions, are we heading for a recession – and if so, how deep? Not even the experts know the answer
Business Post's View Editorial: Causing a recession to drive down inflation will not do the trickA short-term slowdown today to create better growth prospects tomorrow would be a cure almost as destructive as the disease
Economics US dollar to stay strong against euro and sterling, says currency expertThe ECB and Bank of England may find it hard to match the level of interest rate hikes coming from the Fed, says Moneycorp Europe’s Shane Murphy
Markets Financial markets ‘starting to price in potential recession’Kaspar Elmgreen, head of equities at Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager, says that his company is seeing a big fall in consumer confidence in a number of countries
Expert warns central banks not raising interest rates quickly enough to stem inflation crisisGlobal assets manager for €133 billion portfolio says a reversal is urgently needed for the world economy’s ‘extreme imbalance of capital and liquidity relative to investment demand’
Vincent Boland: A new decade of austerity is looming and we are woefully unprepared for itGlobalisation is in retreat, the tech revolution is slowing down and public debt is rising
US economist warns Fed must ‘act tough’ to counter runaway inflationInternational finance professor Sergio Rebelo says the lift in interest rates needs to accelerate to avoid repeat of 1970s crisis
Editorial: The years of free money are now coming to an endInterest rates are set to rise in 2022, with big implications for homeowners, people and businesses with high borrowings, and the trade and investment that keep the global economy moving
Editorial: Ending the flow of ‘free money’ is fraught with riskThe US Federal Reserve is sending out signals that it intends to wind down quantitative easing, but it needs to proceed with caution, for many reasons
Fire or ice? Is the US economy overheating or slowing down? Economists are divided on whether the country faces surging inflation or slowing growth as the rampant Delta variant undermines forecasts
Analysis: Central banking’s brave new worldThe ambition of central bankers once was to ‘be boring’ but they now take on responsibility for policy objectives such as tackling inequality and climate change. Not all onlookers are pleased at this ‘self-defined mission creep’
