In the age of artificial intelligence, Syracuse University's Robert Koppl, progenitor of "big player theory," told Fortune, ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh has tapped former Bank of England Governor Mervyn King to co-chair the US central bank’s ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh isn’t alone in arguing that central banks should stop trying to predict the economy: A ...

This live blog is now closed... Reserve Bank Governor Sanjay Malhotra on Friday (June 5, 2026) announced the decision of the Monetary Policy Committee which kept the repo rate unchanged at 5.25%, as ...

Modern monetary theory (MMT) is an economic theory that has become popular in the blogosphere and heterodox academic circles. It’s also caught the eye of some politicians. Notably, Zack Polanski has ...

So, the first time I was on the policy panel at Hoover, I came and I had, I think, one slide and a long text. And the person who was on the policy panel with me, like this one, was Jim Bullard and he ...

Singapore's central bank tightened its monetary policy settings on Tuesday, flagging the risk that an Iran war-fueled energy shock could push up core inflation even as mounting pressure on growth was ...

California’s housing crisis is not, at its foundation, a mystery. The state does not lack land. It does not lack population willing to build or to occupy housing. What it lacks, systemically, is the ...

Merryn Somerset Webb speaks with Panmure Liberum Chief Economist Simon French to unpack Modern Monetary Theory—the idea that governments issuing their own currency can spend freely, constrained only ...

In his 1982 article, “Monetary Policy: Theory and Practice,” Nobel laureate Milton Friedman—no friend of gold—said that, If a domestic money consists of a commodity, a pure gold standard or cowrie ...

Few words spark more anxiety in public debate than "national debt" and "government deficit." National debt is the total amount of money the government owes, accumulated over years of running deficits.