World economy yet to overcome weak growth, high inflation: IMF

ISTANBUL – International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said Thursday the global economy has proven resilient to shocks in the past three years, but it...

Four reasons inflation will stay stubbornly high for some time

Price inflation is starting to fall in many countries but it still remains way above the typical 2% target of most major economies. In the UK,...

Does Ottawa’s grocery rebate signal a shift to a broader guaranteed basic income?

The federal government’s latest budget included $2.5 billion towards a grocery rebate, a one-time GST credit available to low-income Canadians to ease the pressures of food...

The power of language: How rhetoric awareness can combat hiring bias and discrimination

I first realized the usefulness of literary theory to the issue of hiring discrimination when I came across an article about a permanent resident struggling to...

Tesla to build new ‘mega factory’ in China

ISTANBUL — United States-based electric carmaker Tesla will build a new mega factory in China’s financial hub Shanghai to manufacture the company’s energy storage product Megapack,...

Landbank hastens adoption of QR code payments in public markets

MANILA – The Land Bank of the Philippines (Landbank) is working to accelerate the adoption of cashless payments in public markets by providing market vendors, consumers, and...

Jobs report hints that Fed policy is paying off – and that a ‘growth recession’ awaits

The latest jobs report is in, and the good news is Federal Reserve policy on inflation appears to be working. The bad news is Fed policy...

I tried to pay my taxes in cash – here’s what happened, and why the IRS should make it easier to do so

About two-thirds of all U.S. residents who file federal income taxes typically get a refund. Unfortunately, this year I am among the other third who owe...

No, BlackRock is not leading a Marxist assault on capitalism

Five years ago it would have been unimaginable, but today there is a global movement convinced the world’s largest corporations are engaging in stealth warfare to...

Foreign exchange: several African countries have a shortage of US dollars – why this happens and how to fix it