The president is pressuring the Fed to lower rates to make deficits easier to finance. This could end badly, but for now ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that President Trump’s tax bill, now nearing final approval, could make it ...

The fragility of American Exceptionalism is just one lesson from financial markets in response to Trump’s Liberation Day ...

The International Monetary Fund warned that President Donald Trump’s tax bill nearing final passage on Thursday is likely to complicate the task of reducing the US fiscal deficit and debt burden in ...

China can adopt a more expansionary fiscal policy next year to underpin economic recovery amid multiple challenges including the downturn in the property market and stress from local government debts, ...

Malawi’s shift towards expansionary fiscal policy has attracted mixed views as government moves to stimulate growth even as foreign exchange reserves shrink and the kwacha continues to be volatile.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut its repo rate by 50 basis points from 6 per cent to 5.5 per cent on June 6. With this, there has been a cut by 100 basis points in the repo rate since February ...

Monetary policy needs to become a steady hand, and this is what we have now. I was fully OK by coming down quickly, but now I think it’s time to stay where we are, in particular as r* has changed.

Under a fixed money supply, the additional foreign currency inflow increases reserves, shifting the LM curve right and tending to lower interest rates (though Ghana has maintained tight rates). In ...

Find out what fiscal policy is and how it affects the economy – and your business – through investment opportunities, tax changes and unemployment rates.

By Felix Larry ESSILFIE (Dr) Ghana’s ongoing macroeconomic stabilization efforts, anchored by the International Monetary Fund’s $3 billion Extended Credit Facility program, have drawn attention to the ...

Often, fiscal policy is spoken of in contrast to monetary policy, which is controlled by central banks like the Federal Reserve Board. Fiscal policy, on the other hand, is generally controlled by ...