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US inflation ticks up as Biden puts economy at heart of re-election bid

Consumer price index rose at annual pace of 3.2% in February, up slightly from 3.1% the previous month

Published: 12 Mar 2024

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Brexit car tariffs to be suspended for three years as EU protects car exports – as it happened

Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as Bank of England’s Andrew Bailey calls for UK to ‘embrace AI’

Published: 6 Dec 2023

One shared dream of China and America

Letter: The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco is a reminder of the history of US-China relations, writes Hugo Wong

Published: 19 Nov 2023

Published: 19 Nov 2023

Biden is turning away from free trade – and that’s a great thing

Robert Reich

Trade deals have brought cheaper goods. They’ve also destroyed millions of US jobs and caused US wages to stagnate

Published: 29 Aug 2023

Published: 29 Aug 2023
‘Bidenomics’ is working – which means Biden and the Democrats may win too

Robert Reich

Biden’s economic policies are the most successful in the US in decades. That puts the Democrats on a strong political footing

Published: 2 Aug 2023

Published: 2 Aug 2023

So what if Biden trips up? On the political stage his footwork is the fanciest seen in decades

Will Hutton

The president has outmanoeuvred his opponents again and shown that the right, both in the US and the UK, has no riposte to his brand of economics

Published: 4 Jun 2023

Published: 4 Jun 2023

US banks want socialism for themselves - and capitalism for everyone else

Robert Reich

When banks like Silicon Valley Bank collapse, money floods to bigger ones like JPMorgan. Clients know they’re ‘too big to fail’

Published: 19 Mar 2023

Published: 19 Mar 2023
The US central bank is poised to cause untold hardship to millions of Americans

Robert Reich

The Federal Reserve chairman has admitted that at least 2 million people could lose their jobs if interest rates keep rising

Published: 8 Mar 2023

Published: 8 Mar 2023

The Observer view on why a general election in Britain is now essential

The Conservatives want to foist another prime minister upon the country but they must not be allowed to do more harm

Published: 23 Oct 2022

Rishi Sunak said it was fairytale economics. That was one thing he got right

Will Hutton

The markets have no faith in the mini-budget and the British people will soon feel its effects

Published: 25 Sep 2022

Published: 25 Sep 2022

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UK economy shrank in second quarter according to poll of economists – as it happened

Rolling live coverage of business, economics and financial markets as analysts weigh risk of recessions across the world

Published: 8 Aug 2022

US adds 372,000 jobs in June as growth exceeds expectations

US unemployment rate held steady at 3.6%, labor department said, as jobs report indicated resilience

Published: 8 Jul 2022

Markets brace for sharpest rise in US interest rates in almost 30 years

Federal Reserve expected to increase cost of borrowing by 0.75 percentage points to curb rising inflation

Published: 15 Jun 2022

US jobs numbers beat predictions, with 200,000 new jobs added in February

Economists say that the pressure for higher wages appeared to be subsiding and labor shortages easing

Published: 4 Mar 2022

How Covid spread fear of globalisation and threatens a new world order

From China backtracking on coal to Britain’s ‘chicken king’ calling for a rethink of food production, the virus has accelerated nationalist impulses towards autarky

Published: 15 Oct 2021

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GDP rises and suddenly everyone’s afraid of the big, bad inflation beast

Investors are obsessed with the idea of soaring prices, but a glance at the past decade shows there is not much to fear

Published: 13 Jun 2021

Published: 13 Jun 2021

Sterling reaches $1.39 in best performance for three years

FTSE 100 posts biggest daily gain for over a month as investors buoyed up by vaccine and US economy hopes

Published: 15 Feb 2021

The 'market' won't save us from climate disaster. We must rethink our system

Robert S Devine

Expecting the free market to fix global warming is like trying to pound nails with a saw

Published: 19 Nov 2020

Published: 19 Nov 2020

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