general finance
Acute or chronic? – What the early 1980s implies for unemployment today | Finance & economics
Jun 11th 2020ALTHOUGH AMERICA’S unemployment rate shocked almost everyone by falling in May, 20m workers remain out of a...
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After the fall – Investment in oil supply has collapsed. It may not roar back | Finance & economics
IN APRIL, WITH the world in lockdown from covid-19 and oil demand sinking faster than at any time in...
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Moody moment – India avoids junk status | Finance & economics
Jun 11th 2020LARGE AND leaky, India’s lockdown became “localised” this week. In the parts of the country hit hardest...
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The 24-body problem – The yuan has been one of the world’s most stable major currencies | Finance & economics
IN THE “Three-Body Problem”, a popular Chinese science-fiction novel, the planet Trisolaris lurches between climatic stability and chaos as...
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Buttonwood – The reasons behind the spectacular rally in metal prices | Finance & economics
Jun 13th 2020TOO SOON. That is the judgment a lot of investors apply to the recent across-the-board surge in...
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Pandemic pendulum – Why are bank bosses sounding more optimistic about loan losses? | Finance & economics
Jun 13th 2020GAUGING HOW badly the coronavirus has damaged the economy is tricky. Pessimists diagnose a far worse recession...
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Free exchange – Economic research documents black Americans’ struggle for equality | Finance & economics
History shows that progress towards equality is followed by a racist backlashJun 11th 2020THE DEATH of George Floyd at...
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Americans saved a record chunk of their incomes in April
STIMULUS CHEQUES arrived in April, but lockdowns gave Americans little chance to splurge. Instead they squirrelled away a third...
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The May jobs bounce – American unemployment falls, but normality is still far away | Finance & economics
The question remains: how many jobs have gone for good?Jun 5th 2020WASHINGTON, DCDIRE HEADLINES had already been prepared before...
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Counting the cost – America’s public-pension funding crisis worsens | Finance & economics
Jun 4th 2020SHARE PRICES may have rallied from the depths they plumbed when the coronavirus pandemic was spreading rapidly...
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