Money Talks: What happens if inflation sticks?
Over the past two years, inflation has been full of surprises. Central bankers are now facing up to the very real possibility that bringing sticky inf...
Money Talks from The Economist
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Money Talks: Averting the city death spiral
Cities across the world are in the midst of an identity crisis. With fewer workers commuting into offices and more shoppers heading online, what are t...
Money Talks: The baby bust blues
In more than half of the world's countries, the number of babies being born has fallen below the replacement rate. For the next generation, that means...
Money Talks: The trillion-dollar question
For over three decades, the people most excited about Nvidia’s chips have been gamers. They used its graphics cards to render games in super-high defi...
Money Talks: The great debt hangover
Decades of cheap money has left businesses in America and Europe addicted to debt. Some companies have been borrowing cash just to dole it out to shar...
Money Talks: Another way, another dollar?
From Alipay’s QR codes to PayPal, it’s never been easier to move money around. Central banks are even considering their own digital currencies. And al...
Money Talks: Why house prices are so stubbornly high
Housing in America has never been this unaffordable. The pandemic set off skyrocketing prices; then the Fed began to rapidly increase interest rates, ...
Money Talks: Is the car industry running out of gas?
Buying a car used to be about two things: style and performance. But as motorists trade in their petrol or diesel cars for electric vehicles, manufact...
Money Talks: A business podcast on the business of podcasts
Around a third of Americans now listen to at least one podcast a week. That fact has not escaped the attention of advertisers, who spent nearly $2bn o...
Money Talks: Last dance for TikTok?
Time may be running short for TikTok. In the US, both Democrats and Republicans view the Chinese-owned app as a national security threat and would lik...