Markets wrestle with Trump’s unconventional debt ideas
Investors are weighing whether Donald Trump might turn to unconventional ideas to try to bring the ballooning US debt under control, after the president insisted he won’t cut popular health…
The changing parameters of external policies
As warfare has altered over the decades with the shifting of the ‘centre of gravity’ and the notion of the cold war evolving into Hybrid warfare, so diplomacy and the…
BOJ bids final farewell to Kuroda’s radical policy experiment
In rare criticism of its past policies, the Bank of Japan said former governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s stimulus didn’t change consumer psychology as much as planned, continuing a symbolic shift away…
Negative rates forever? Central bankers look for an exit
The world’s most powerful policymakers are struggling to alleviate the pain of a slowing global economy with few levers left to pull and growing concern that one of them, negative…
Important macroeconomic challenges
Pakistan needs a homegrown reform policy that takes strong radical and creative decisions about political economic issues, and balances monetary and fiscal policies, and for that it would have been…
Easy Fed softens fiscal policy punch on US economy
The Federal Reserve's aggressive easing of monetary policy is proving surprisingly effective at blunting the blow to the US economy from tighter fiscal policy, according to economists who have been…
So much for the ‘Trump put’
Nobody’s surprised anymore that financial markets are throwing such a fit over Donald Trump’s tariffs. If you think about it, this is the most natural, most rational response to the…
Trump turbulence stalls large pharma and biotech deals, bankers say
Large deals involving pharmaceutical and biotech companies are stalling as executives grapple with mercurial White House economic policies that have roiled markets and set off a global trade war, according…
Trump as a leader
Donald Trump, on the first day of his presidency, has proved himself a truly amazing leader with a clear strategy to achieve his goals. With a firm determination to make…
Too hot to handle Dr Farrukh Saleem
Tomorrow, the disruptor-in-chief will be sworn in as the 45th president of the US. On his first day in office, he plans to issue a hundred executive orders. The disruptor-in-chief…
