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Nobel winner Joseph Stiglitz says Fed raised rates ‘too far, too fast’ — and now needs to cut big

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Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says the Federal Reserve should deliver a half-point interest rate cut at its forthcoming meeting, accusing the U.S. central bank of going “too far, too fast” with monetary policy tightening and making the inflation problem worse. His comments come ahead of Friday’s pivotal release of U.S. jobs data, with investors
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How a mind-boggling device changed economic history

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At the London School of Economics, a few weeks before Christmas, in 1949, the Lionel Robbins seminar was about to begin. The prestigious event was at the razor’s edge of postwar economic thought: Robbins, a giant of economics, had made the LSE a rival to John Maynard Keynes’s Cambridge, recruiting future Nobel laureates such as
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How an economist optimises their morning routine

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Michel Barnier lands to fix ‘ungovernable’ France

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Nvidia’s AI chips are cheaper to rent in China than US

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Hefty slate of new-issues price into constructive market

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Municipals were slightly firmer Thursday amid another busy day in the primary market, which saw a $1.1 billion deal from the North Texas Tollway Authority price and $850 million of general obligation bonds from Massachusetts sold in the competitive market. U.S. Treasury yields fell and equities were mixed. The two-year muni-to-Treasury ratio Thursday was at
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With nearly half of IIJA dollars in hand, states tackle ailing bridges

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One third of bridges in the U.S. need to be repaired or replaced. But federal infrastructure dollars are helping states chip away at that number, according to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s latest annual bridge report. “‘Slow and steady’ describes ongoing state efforts to reduce the number of bridges in poor condition (“structurally
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U.S. Virgin Islands’ leaders argue about borrowing more

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The leaders of the United States Virgin Islands are arguing about whether they should borrow an additional $50 million for what the governor describes as “imperative needs.” Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. asked the legislature to approve an additional $50 million line of credit, but Senate Majority Leader Kenneth Gittens said he had “serious concerns” about
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