We’ve heard a lot about inflation. Next Thursday is Thanksgiving Day in the US, the biggest national holiday, when much of the country gathers together and…
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In late October, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company’s plan to change the name of its parent company to ‘Meta’, in an effort to rebrand…
Inflation is the topic that just keeps on giving. It used to be that every Thursday I’d start panicking. “What should I write about this week?”…
So… the Fed finally tapered! OK, now what do we talk about? Now we start speculating about “lift-off” – the time when they start raising interest…
The Fed is widely – if not unanimously – expected to begin tapering down its $120bn-a-month bond purchases this week, aiming to end them by next…
I debated whether the title of this week’s piece should be “from ‘transitory’ to ‘persistent’” but decided to go with the above. In any case, the…
European Daylight Saving Time ends on Sunday 31st October 2021 and subsequently US Daylight Saving Time ends on Sunday 7th November 2021. Please refer to the…
There are three major central bank meetings next week: the Bank of Canada on Wednesday and the Bank of Japan (BoJ) and European Central Bank (ECB)…
The world of dew is a world of dew. And yet, and yet— Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 One of the main themes of Japanese aesthetics…
The mantra of many of the major central banks is that the current unusually high rate of inflation is just “transitory.” Here’s what a few central…