economic

The American president will have left his mark on the American economy: massive tax cuts, trade war with China, banking and environmental deregulation ... For what results?

Consumers want everything to be available immediately without affecting their quality of life in the city. A paradox that pushes retailers and logisticians to ensure last mile deliveries quickly and sustainably in urban areas. What if the solution ultimately lies in slower delivery?

12,000 billion euros were spent in 2020 by public authorities around the world to support the private sector. Faced with these losses of wealth, negative interest rates would be the solution to avoid further widening the deficits and cushion this unprecedented crisis.

The expression “keep at a distance” is the key word during this pandemic period. But this evil of contactlessness is deeper and ... worrying. By Philippe Boyer, Director of Institutional Relations and Innovation at Covivio.

1.6 million businesses have been created across the Atlantic. This is the first time that the symbolic million mark has been crossed.

The “pernicious and persistent” impact of long-outlawed policies like “redlining” blacks out of white neighborhoods continues to influence the ability of minority families to amass wealth, and requires a deeper look at how those longstanding problems might be addressed, Atlanta Fed president Raphael Bostic said on Friday. Even as laws have moved forward to forbid …

Free markets have allowed the West to have unprecedented economic growth and send standards of living up and up, year after year. We often forget that things that we consider everyday items now, not even the richest among us possessed 100 years ago. John D. Rockefeller was one of the richest men to ever live, …

If Donald Trump’s sister is right that he “has no principles,” he does at least have a few enduring instincts. Perhaps the most persistent is the president’s conviction that American greatness is threatened by voluntary economic exchange, the most powerful engine of peace and prosperity in human history. Each of us has a fundamental right …

A news commentator once observed that “any half-dozen economists will normally come up with about six different policy descriptions.” It certainly does seem that way! If economics is a “science,” then why does it defy the precision, the certainty, and the relative unanimity of opinion which characterize so many other sciences—physics, chemistry, and mathematics, for …

When it comes to diagnosing the causes of the Great Depression and prescribing cures for our present recession, the pundits and economists from the biggest schools typically argue about two different types of intervention. Big-government Keynesians, such as Paul Krugman, argue for massive fiscal stimulus—that is, huge budget deficits—to fill the gap in aggregate demand. …