Fed interest rate hike may have less of an impact than you think
Dec 09, 2015 13:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
There is a very high chance the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates next week. It would be the first time the Federal Open Monetary Committee (FOMC) the Feds rate-setting team has lifted its benchmark rate since...
How much diversity can the US Constitution stand?
Dec 09, 2015 13:51 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Tanya Washington, Professor of Law, Georgia State University People queue up outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC to hear the case of Fisher v University of Texas, Austin. Jose Luis Magaua/Reuters The...
Should voters care about candidates' religious views?
Dec 09, 2015 13:49 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Politics
Religion is grabbing some of the biggest headlines in the current US presidential campaign. Weve heard a lot about what candidates like Donald Trump think about other peoples religious beliefs. But what about the...
Effectiveness of BoC’s monetary policy - CAD eying on global oil price recovery
Dec 09, 2015 12:49 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The Lonnies 13% depreciation against the US dollar in last year till date was a forthright progression of modification to the terms-of-trade shock that has distressed the broader commodity currency block. Emphasizing...
De-leveraging under way for Asia Ex-Japan
Dec 09, 2015 11:55 am UTC| Insights & Views
A turbulent year for emerging markets (EM) may be coming to an end, but on the other hand, prospects for 2016 do not look very appealing either. Most economists expect either a slight recovery in average emerging market...
Why India’s plan to fight climate change doesn't hold water
Dec 09, 2015 09:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
As the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases globally, the pressure is on India to offer something meaningful at the Paris climate talks. Yet the country demands the right to develop and lift its population out of...
Explainer: where is 'the cloud' ... and who owns it?
Dec 08, 2015 20:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Why invest in purchasing, housing and maintaining a set of computers when you can outsource all that worry to someone else? This has been the oft-used marketing slogan of cloud computing. And it works. It is much easier to...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects