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Waiving the Filibuster to Pass a National Abortion Bill Is a Bad Idea

Democrats will live to regret doing this if they have the votes to do it.

Reason · Oct 1, 2024

New figures show UK economic growth weaker than first thought

The UK economy continued its recovery from recession at the end of last year

The Independent UK · Sep 30, 2024

Boeing strike costs U.S. $1 billion of GDP in just two weeks

Over 32,000 striking workers look set to refuse Boeing’s latest offer, but the costs are mounting on both sides.

Fortune · Sep 27, 2024

Britain wants spending and a better NHS, not this obsession with growth. That’s why there’s big trouble ahead

Starmer speaks of a decade of renewal but he is not offering even Labour voters what they clearly want, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK · Sep 26, 2024

Business confidence in South Africa: how a 70-year-old survey has given early signals of the economy’s pulse

Business tendency surveys provide very useful indicators of trends within an economy. The information is available well before the official statistics, such as GDP growth, and provides insights into business dynamics that cannot be found elsewhere.

The Conversation · Sep 25, 2024

Top 100 Stocks to Buy: Argentina’s Banco Macro Can’t Keep Moving Higher?

Since becoming a retail bank in 1994, Banco Macro has become one of Argentina’s largest financial institutions. It moved into the top five of Barchart’s Top 100 Stocks to Buy on Monday. Up 228% over the past year, it can’t keep moving higher, right?

Barchart · Sep 24, 2024

GDP, PCE and Other Key Things to Watch this Week

Last week was a big one, showing a large shift in the Fed's actions as they cut rates by 50 basis points. Here are 5 things to watch this week in the market.

Barchart · Sep 22, 2024

OPINION - The Standard View: Rachel Reeves must focus on growth, not just doom

Round numbers should be no more interesting or enlightening than any other. But the revelation that Britain’s debt has hit 100 per cent of GDP is unlikely to lift the sense of gloom that has already settled above Whitehall.

Evening Standard · Sep 20, 2024

New headache for Rachel Reeves as public borrowing hits 100% of GDP for first time since 1961

The public finances have been put under enormous strain by the costs of responding the triple whammy of the financial crisis, the pandemic and the energy crisis.

Evening Standard · Sep 20, 2024

Economists have urged Rachel Reeves to loosen the purse strings – here’s why it’s not that easy

A group of economists has publicly urged chancellor Rachel Reeves to reverse her stance on public investment, and relax the Treasury rules that constrain it. They argue in a letter to the Financial Times that low investment is the root cause of Britain’s productivity stagnation, and that the government must…

The Conversation · Sep 19, 2024