The yen on Tuesday plunged to its lowest level against the US dollar since August 1998 as leveraged funds in Europe and the US resumed bets that the Bank of Japan’s ultra loose monetary policy would continue. After a comparatively calm morning, the yen began to drop sharply in the afternoon, plunging to a new...Read More

How a US-EU trade agreement could improve the economy, increase jobs, and strengthen democracy Skip to main content Sanjay Patnaik, director of the Center on Regulation and Markets at Brookings, discusses his new report on the benefits of a U.S.-EU free trade agreement, building on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiated by the Obama administration...Read More

Bangladesh and India did not feature much in the world economy only two decades ago. However, powerful economic growth paired with steadfast leadership revolutionized the economic situations of these two nations. The spectacular expansion of the Bangladesh economy and India’s global engagement is today considered as a classic example of the “broken chain of economic...Read More

In an effort to boost its economy, Algeria is creating a culture of start-up business enterprise.  Evermore entrepreneurs are seizing this opportunity  and starting businesses, and some with great vision and ambition. One such example is Yassir, a transport service already operating in several countries in the region. The company Yassir is a pioneer of...Read More

Over the past month, the and have been the weakest of the major currencies, off 5.00%-5.40%. The yen is at 24-year lows, while sterling swooned nearly eight cents in less than four weeks toward the March 2020 extreme (~$1.14).  The yen’s weakness is more clearly a function of the divergence of policy. The correlation with US...Read More

By Maria Maalouf* There is no question that US President Joe Biden scored a big political and legislative victory when Congress last month passed a big spending bill totaling $360 billion. The Inflation Reduction Act includes money earmarked for healthcare, the climate and other spending areas. However, Biden’s celebrations could be premature. Other political factors...Read More

The following is an edited extract from Frank Furedi’s forthcoming book, The Road to Ukraine: How the West Lost its Way, which will be published by De Gruyter on 3 October. Pre-order your copy here. Almost from the moment Russia invaded Ukraine in February this year, Western governments and commentators seized on the war as...Read More

Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story! During the last legislative session, there was a general sense that the large surplus in tax revenue for spending was a quirk of the pandemic. Stimulus funds, along with construction and other essential industries, did keep the economy treading water until tourism was able to restart....Read More

The arrival of a Dollar General discount store in Royalton, which has been rumored for months, is now on hold. That’s either good news or bad, depending on how you feel about a large patch of grass off Route 14 being plowed under to make room for a national chain retailer that sells everything from...Read More

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stepped into a hornet’s nest of mockery on Twitter Friday after stating that the U.S. has added “ten thousand million jobs” since President Biden took office. Jean-Pierre made the gaffe during the Friday White House press briefing while she was talking...Read More