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Is China Ready for Donald Trump 2.0?

People and companies in China—indeed in business communities around the world—have eagerly embraced Beijing’s promises to enact policies that will restore the nation’s economic momentum. However, disappointment has always followed....

Stock Market Crash Proves Federal Reserve Must Cut Interest Rates

Mark Twain is often credited with saying that history does not repeat itself, but it does often rhyme. He might well have been talking about the stock market’s repeated tendency...

China’s Economic Slowdown is Strengthening its Defense Industrial Base

In 2023, China’s economy grew at the slowest pace since 1990, apart from two years during the COVID-19 pandemic when the country was closed to the outside world. For many...

The Federal Reserve’s High Interest Rates Could Morph Into a Crisis

When it comes to economics, there are few things about which we can be entirely sure. However, following today’s stronger-than-expected employment numbers, we can be sure that the Federal Reserve...

China’s Dim Economic Prospects

China’s economy is in a grim place these days, far from the past when many journalists and politicians praised Beijing’s policies and spoke of that economy’s imminent dominance. Beijing just...

Is the Federal Reserve Fighting the Last War?

It is often said that generals tend to fight the last war. Something similar might be said of Jerome Powell’s Federal Reserve. At a time when both domestic and external...

The Federal Reserve’s Money Supply Problem

If the past is any guide, when the Federal Reserve meets next week, of one thing we can be sure. The Fed will continue to adhere to a strictly data-dependent...

The 2021 Property Boom: Home Prices Reach Highest Level in Over a Decade

The measure of average home prices has hit its highest point since 2005, largely due to low mortgage interest rates and heightened demand for houses in a market experiencing widespread...

Big Mortgages? Americans Need Them Thanks to a Housing Shortage.

As the U.S. economy begins to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic, there are various indications of a return to normalcy in the housing market. For instance, as CNBC reported this...