Are Price-Gouging Consumer Giants to Blame for High Inflation?
With his poll numbers falling, U.S. President Joe Biden is under pressure to do something—anything—to get inflation under control. That’s led his admi...
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Will Covid-19 reshape the global economy or simply shrink it? What are nations doing to protect jobs and businesses from the fallout, and what will the long-term consequences be for labor markets, global supply chains and government finances? On Stephanomics, a podcast hosted by Bloomberg Economics head Stephanie Flanders—the former BBC economics editor and chief market strategist for Europe at JPMorgan Asset Management—we combine reports from Bloomberg journalists around the world and conversations with internationally respected experts on these and other issues to bring the global economy to life.
Why the Fed Must Move Fast to Tame Inflation
When facing an economic crisis, the Fed's playbook normally skews toward juicing the economy too much rather than too little. After all, in the last g...
Finance Minister Le Maire Explains the French Economic Comeback
Closed schools. Empty shelves. Workers out sick. Almost two years after Covid-19 overturned the U.S. economy, "it's like deja vu all over again,'' in ...
Economies Have Adapted to a World Where Covid Calls the Shots
With shortages at the grocery store and not enough people willing to work, 2022 is starting to look a lot like 2020. But beneath the ugly exterior, th...
The Stephanomics Global Preview for 2022
While still recovering from a coronavirus-induced recession, the U.S. may be rushing into a new downturn, this time thanks to inflation. Its economy f...
Larry Summers Predicts the Future, and It Doesn't Look Good
Economically at least, this holiday season feels a bit more like it belongs to Ebenezer Scrooge than Santa Claus. Amid a resurgent pandemic, there are...
Chinese Workers Are Saying Enough Is Enough, and Xi Is Not Amused
The so-called great resignation that’s confounding businesses in the West has a counterpart in a most unlikely place: China. This week, we offer a dou...
How Global Catastrophe Has Only Made Billionaires Richer
It seems nothing can hurt the world's billionaires, not the worst pandemic in a century or a global recession. On this week's podcast, New York-based ...
Inflation Poses a Growing Credibility Risk for Central Banks
Initially, Jerome Powell said the highest inflation in decades was going to be "transitory." This week, the world's most powerful central banker said ...
John Kerry Explains Why the Glasgow Climate Deal Matters
This week we unpack two very different challenges facing global leaders: the climate crisis and domestic violence. First, U.S. Special Presidential En...