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NEW YORK – Historic, game-changing, revolutionary: such has been the widespread reaction to the recent agreement by G7 finance ministers on a global minimum effective tax rate of “at least” 15% for large multinational firms

23 июня 2021 5 мин. 5959

The Upside of Population Decline

LONDON – China’s recently published census, showing that its population has almost stopped growing, brought warnings of severe problems for the country

22 июня 2021 6 мин. 5994

Inflation Alarm Bells Are Ringing, So Why Didn’t The Fed Raise Rates This Month?

For now, the central bank will leave rates untouched in the range of 0% to 0.25%

21 июня 2021 3 мин. 7570

How An Ex-Semipro Poker Player Bet Big And Won The $4.3 Trillion Mortgage Market

Nima Ghamsari and his Blend Labs weaned the nation’s biggest mortgage lenders off of paper—and just in time to prevent a pandemic meltdown

18 июня 2021 10 мин. 9284

The Fickle Charms of Private Global Finance

NEW DELHI – Once again, emerging markets are on the capital-flows roller coaster – one no less dizzying for being so familiar. And once again, the highs and lows of financial-market swings in these economies are mostly generated by external forces, not national policies. But the possibility that even the smallest domestic mistake could send them into a tailspin still looms large

17 июня 2021 5 мин. 5477

The Deeper Anxieties of the Inflation Hawks

AUSTIN – In a recent commentary for The Washington Post, former US Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence H. Summers stated that “the consumer price index rose at a 7.5 percent annual rate” in the first quarter of 2021

16 июня 2021 6 мин. 6608

The Inflation Red Herring

NEW YORK – Slight increases in the rate of inflation in the United States and Europe have triggered financial-market anxieties. Has US President Joe Biden’s administration risked overheating the economy with its $1.9 trillion rescue package and plans for additional spending to invest in infrastructure, job creation, and bolstering American families?

15 июня 2021 5 мин. 7323

The Future Of Wall Street: Fintech 50 2021

Stock markets trade almost entirely electronically and many of Wall Street’s most valuable companies now provide data, technology and software to the big banks, private equity firms and hedge funds that execute the day’s big trades