Fiscal policy in the United States is heavily influenced by the ideological and economic priorities of the Republican and Democratic parties.

The Washington Post opinion page rarely fails to disappoint when it comes to delivering hyperbole. The reigning queen of that ...

In this week’s edition, we talk about DeepSeek, Trump bullying Colombia, Vivek’s post-DOGE innings, Jasprit Bumrah becoming ...

Key budget announcements like support for gig workers, global capacity centres, and startups will unleash entrepreneurial ...

A tenuous ceasefire has ended the hostilities in Gaza but the deep impacts of that conflict on Australian society continue to ...

Overall, it is a pragmatic budget that will give more money to the middle class to drive consumption. The reform agenda is ambitious, but it should be taken to its logical conclusion to drive ...

There is an emerging international debate about what is at stake with GDP growth. In Sri Lanka, not just nationally, but even at the provincial level, GDP growth and contribution are attributed to ...

Keynesian policies of state intervention towards full employment that was dominant during the post-World War II economic boom became delegitimised with the widespread capitalist crisis of falling ...

As President-elect Trump approaches the second half of his discontinuous presidency, Americans seem cool to his signature economic proposal: steep new tariffs on America’s most important trading ...

Way beyond economics and central banking is Patra's love for wild life photography. And ever so often this writer's effort to reach him after the mandatory silent period post policy tended to be ...

The manufacturing sector is estimated to grow at 5.3% in 2024-25 as compared to 9.9% in 2023-24. The growth of the mining sector decelerated from 7.1% in 2023-24 to 2.9% in 2024-25. Construction ...

Economics departments across the United States slavishly adhere to the mainstream consensus on austerity and the free market.