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By Alexander Friedman - Sep 28,2020
JACKSON HOLE — COVID-19 has now killed 200,000 people in the United States.
By Alexander Friedman - Jan 02,2020
NEW YORK — It is commonly believed that the future of humanity will one day be threatened by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), perhaps embodied in malevolent robots.
By Alexander Friedman - Dec 22,2015
The US Federal Reserve has finally done it, raising interest rates for the first time in almost a decade.The ramifications for interest-rate spreads, emergingmarket equities and housing demand, among much else, are the subject of widespread debate.
By Alexander Friedman - Aug 24,2015
In his Pulitzer-Prize-winning book, Lords of Finance, the economist Liaquat Ahamed tells the story of how four central bankers, driven by staunch adherence to the gold standard, “broke the world” and triggered the Great Depression. Today’s central bankers largely share a new
By Alexander Friedman - Mar 29,2015
The US Federal Reserve’s new policy statement will, as usual, be analysed in excruciating detail in the days ahead, as investors seek guidance on when and how quickly interest rates will be raised.
Notably, the word “patient” does not appear, and the Fed has si