Economy & Finance

It had all started with a little-noticed announcement in May last year, banning the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, an American state pension fund, from investing in Chinese securities. The Board had previously attempted to…

La pandemia da Covid-19 ha avuto effetti deleteri per l’economia globale, impattando in particolar modo il mercato del petrolio. I vari lockdown, il blocco parziale dei commerci e degli spostamenti e, in alcune fasi, l’interruzione della…

Vulnerabilities in crucial supply chains in the US, Europe and East Asia came into sharp relief during the Covid-19 pandemic. Given that many of the gaps in medical supplies could only be filled—in the acute phase of the crisis—by China…

To counter the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, the United States Congress has approved spending packages totaling close to $6 trillion, and President Joe Biden is now pushing for even more, aiming to pass both the $1 trillion bipartisan…

The US, and to a lesser extent the UK and the Eurozone, have shown clear signs of a rather significant rebound in inflation after many years in which the central banks found it very difficult to raise the low dynamic of prices and bring it…