Economic Policies

The IMF has warned that fiscal policy tends to be looser in election years, when governments seek to boost electorate support by announcing tax cuts.

The government is also hoping 80 percent of the energy grid will come from renewable sources by 2035.

‘We’ve seen it play out this way every single time a foreign automaker plant has been unionized; not one of those plants remains in operation,” they said.

The Biden administration’s policy shift has eroded American leadership in digital trade, experts warn.

Further progress in the battle against inflation boosts expectations of interest rate cuts to be announced by the Bank of England.

Jim Chalmers says the May 14 budget will place a ’real emphasis on economic security' amidst multiple concerns about the global economy.

The new Environment Protection Agency has the power to impose maximum fines for serious breaches of federal law of $780 million or a jail term of 7 years.

The legislation was passed with bipartisan support ‘with the intent that abortion would not be included,’ a Republican lawmaker said.

Over 2,000 people have lost their jobs in New Zealand’s public sector, and the cuts are set to continue.

The Resolution Foundation said the designers of Universal Credit hadn’t anticipated 2.3 million people using the system because they were too ill to work.

The chancellor declared Britain ‘has done the hard yards’ and the economy is ‘bouncing back,’ and said he aims to eventually abolish National Insurance.

Once finalized, the rules could strengthen the enforcement authority of CFIUS, an interagency panel that holds power over TikTok’s future and U.S. Steel sale.

Not a lot, it seems.

The Bank of England has, on numerous occasions, indicated it needs to see sustainable easing of inflation before it could move to cut interest rates.