Managing these risks requires a keen policy focus on balancing trade-offs between inflation and real activity, rebuilding buffers, and lifting medium-term growth prospects through stepped-up ...
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Americans are growing concerned about sticky inflation, and President-elect Donald Trump needs to make sure that he doesn’t fan those anxieties with untimely tax cuts or tariffs that juice the ...
Finally, more tax revenue through more growth—made possible by the improved tax system and deregulation—would help. Continuing to ignore fiscal-monetary interactions and hoping inflation will ...
The Bank of England looks set to resume cutting interest rates next month after official data revealed weaker inflation and anaemic economic growth. Economic output expanded by just 0.1 per cent ...
The Indian economy is projected to record an annual median growth of 6.4 per cent for ... banking and financial services sector. CPI-based inflation has a median forecast of 4.8 per cent for ...
Irish inflation accelerated again last month as ... The latest consumer price index (CPI) put the annualised rate of price growth at 1.4 per cent in December, up from 1 per cent the previous ...
In a recent Opinion section, Rikki Tharpe of Baton Rouge stated that the president of the United States has no direct control over lowering prices. I want to bring to mind a few facts directly ...
The growth will do little to ease fears of a possible ... The weak GDP data, which followed slower than expected inflation of 2.5% for December, makes it even more likely that the Bank of England ...
Today’s much-worried-about CPI inflation reading was, contrary to the market’s fears, not too hot. Headline inflation rose from 2.8 per cent to 2.9 per cent in December, just as economists ...
The UK economy returned to growth for the first time in three months ... especially after UK inflation unexpectedly dipped in December. But Mr Wood said the outlook for 2025 was brighter than ...
Inflation rose 2.9% on an annual basis in December, with the latest Consumer Price Index illustrating the Federal Reserve's challenge in battling stickier-than-expected price increases. Last month ...