Earlier this week, the U.S. Senate confirmed Lael Brainard’s nomination as vice chair of the Federal Reserve, making her the third woman to hold the Fed’s No. 2 position. With several key Democrats ...

We are pleased to share the October 2022 issue of the Global Economics Monthly (GEM), the newsletter of the CSIS Economics Program. This month’s GEM features our latest commentaries, recent and ...

A series of severe and mutually reinforcing shocks hit the world economy in 2022, as it approached the mid-point for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. While the impacts of ...

WHEATON, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--First Trust Advisors L.P. (“First Trust”) announced today that it has been awarded the Consensus Economics 2022 Forecast Accuracy Award for most accurately predicting ...

The scariest economics paper of 2022 argues that labor markets remain extremely tight, underlying inflation is high and possibly rising, and several years of very high unemployment may be necessary to ...

Economic freedom is in decline around the world, especially due to extraordinary restrictions and policies that have reduced or destroyed economic opportunity. The U.S. is suffering, as the Biden ...

Discover how the Nordic model blends capitalism and social welfare, compared to the U.S. system, with insights on taxation, social services, and economic efficiency.

In financial terms the past year has been bad for almost everyone. Inflation of 10% year-on-year across the rich world has slashed household incomes. Investors have lost out as global stockmarkets ...

Over the past 2 years, the risks and shortfalls in our global supply chains have been front and center in presidential briefing rooms, company boardrooms, and even family dining rooms. Supply chains ...

Increasing oil and gas demand and prices led to a strong rebound in hydrocarbon production and exports in 2021, sharply reducing fiscal and external financing needs. The recovery in the ...

Everyone is a pessimist these days. On July 14th Steven Blitz of ts Lombard, an investment-research firm, said that he was now expecting a recession this year in the world’s largest economy, a day ...