finance

 

Reflecting on recent times

Policymakers’ responses to global events have laid bare the challenges and trade-offs inherent in addressing monetary policy and financial stability shocks. Andrew Bailey discusses what lessons can be learnt

  

Pandemic-related economic distortions are fading

Jerome Powell addresses the current economic situation and the path ahead for monetary policy, discussing economic events since the pandemic and exploring why inflation rose to levels not seen in a generation

 

A capital markets solution for private companies

Cees Vermaas explains how public markets are underserving many companies, and how the growing private company economy needs an efficient and cost-effective solution for share trading

 

The effectiveness of monetary policy

Amr Saber Algarhi and Konstantinos Lagos describe how the Jackson Hole symposium, a meeting of bankers in a remote Wyoming valley, could have consequences for us all

  

Out of the frying pan into the fire

Patrick Minford argues that the Labour government’s obsession with absurd fiscal rules and muddles over monetary policy will skewer the new Labour government’s policy for UK growth

  

South African resilience

We are entering an era of new economic challenges, even as the recent ones have yet to be overcome. Lesetja Kganyago discusses how South Africa is responding to the global economic challenges