Originally published at Fed Guy, reposted with permission. The dollar rally may be set to continue as limits on quantitative tightening bind other central banks…
Faced with the highest inflation in more than 40 years, the Federal Reserve has taken aggressive action this year. At its last policy meeting in September, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) unanimously decided to raise the target range for the f…
After Russian President Vladimir Putin’s popularity already took a dip in September following continued losses by the Russian military forces and a partial mobilization of the population, support for the war the country is leading in Ukraine has now al…
In a new survey by the Levada Center, Russians were asked what feelings the news of the military mobilization caused in them. Fear was the most common answer given throughout all age demographics. The second-most common answer varied by age group, howe…
Following last week’s jobs report, which dashed hopes of the Fed pivoting to a less hawkish approach in its next policy meeting in November, investors are now anxiously looking ahead to Thursday’s release of the consumer price index for September. Whil…
As the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group are holding their annual meetings in Washington DC this week to discuss the numerous challenges faced by the world economy these days, the IMF has once again cut its forecast of global economi…
In the latest Postal Development Report, the Universal Postal Union looks at the postal services of 169 countries and ranks them based on four main components – reliability, reach, relevance and resilience. Top of the pile in 2021 was Switzerland – a r…
The use of social networks continues to grow around the world. At the same time, users are not shy to embrace new services, as the rapid rise of video sharing platform TikTok shows.The number of active social media users worldwide is estimated at 4.6 b…
Gallup conducts a annual poll to find out which high-profile federal agencies and departments have the highest favorability scores with the U.S. public. In the latest installment, only four out of the agencies included were rated positively by at least…
The unraveling of hyper-Globalization and hyper-Financialization will generate consequences few conventional analysts and pundits anticipate.