Inflation is back – what does it mean for markets?

“I know chair Powell,” says US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent. “His term ends in May [2026]. If he wants to see that through, I think he should. If he wants to leave early, I think he should.” Besse

When a president uses his office to launch a cryptocurrency, it is clear that his modus operandi is to part people from their money. Apply this analysis to the global stage, tune out the furore over h

The combined 258,000 downward revision to jobs was the largest on record outside the pandemic

Inflation raises it head: “With new higher [US] tariffs now in force for three months, there was one question that the June consumer price index [CPI] numbers needed to answer – ‘Are tariffs at last b

Investors have a lot to think about as the president’s policies gather momentum

“I keep reading that Donald Trump is an economic genius,” says Matthew Hennessey in The Wall Street Journal. The story goes that the “punishing recession prophesied by the priests of the economic reli