Lawrence Summers

The recovery from the shock of the pandemic is here. It is driven, above all, by the arrival of vaccines, but also by an improvement in our ability to(...)

Joe Biden is on the brink of securing final approval from Congress for his $1.9 trillion (€1.6 trillion) stimulus bill – a bet that massive fiscal int(...)

The equity rally resumed on Monday, pushing global indices to further all-time highs, as the Biden administration kept the pressure on Congress over i(...)

Are stock markets, especially the US market, in a bubble that is sure to pop? The answer depends on prospects for corporate earnings and interest rate(...)

It was late afternoon on February 2nd, the eve of the Iowa caucuses. We were jammed into a high-school gymnasium in Des Moines, the state capital, for(...)

Central Bank governor Philip Lane said on Tuesday that he expected property prices in Ireland to “cool off” over time as supply increased, although he(...)

Will Donald Trump benefit the enraged white working class that brought him into the White House? To answer this, one must examine his plans and the de(...)

Central banks are, as Mohamed El-Erian has written, “the only game in town”. They are certainly the main players of the game of macroeconomic stabilis(...)

Is the marriage between liberal democracy and global capitalism an enduring one? Political developments across the west – particularly the candidacy o(...)

Renaud Laplanche wanted to reinvent banking as we know it -- and Wall Street loved him for it.Not any more. A decade after Laplanche helped create (...)