John Plender
For policymakers the lesson is that any escape from today’s low interest.
Published 10 Oct, 2016 06:04am
The defined benefit model of pension provision is supremely unsuited to today’s world of low or negative interest rates.
Published 23 May, 2016 06:57am
In the absence of more pro-growth policies and a return to inflation, the public debt overhang will remain obdurate.
Updated 23 May, 2016 07:41am
Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso made it clear he did not share the US Treasury’s view that the yen market was orderly
Published 09 May, 2016 06:49am
The incentive to spend the windfall is reduced because consumers do not fear prices are about to rise.
Published 25 Apr, 2016 06:49am
Appreciation of the yen against the dollar reversed the normal currency market laws of gravity.
Updated 11 Apr, 2016 07:01am
There is a marked lack of transparency and accountability in what is now a huge item of corporate spending and a serious
Published 07 Mar, 2016 06:33am
In the US, investors are worried about decelerating corporate earnings.
Published 26 Jan, 2016 06:55am
Economists at the International Monetary Fund have found that redistribution and reduced inequality support faster.
Published 11 Jan, 2016 07:07am
The clout of the oil and gas producers’ sovereign wealth funds is considerable.
Published 14 Dec, 2015 07:10am
Given the near-universal consensus that there will indeed be a quarter-point rise next month.
Published 30 Nov, 2015 06:47am
AS the period of ultra-loose monetary policy in the developed world inches to a close, a paradox calls for...
Published 10 Aug, 2015 06:48am
It is beyond doubt that ‘normalisation’ of monetary policy is a long way off. Janet Yellen, chairwoman of the Federal...
Published 29 Jun, 2015 06:28am
To create a more robust economic recovery, it would make sense in many countries to shift income from companies to
Published 09 Mar, 2015 10:19am
While the yellow metal is often thought of as a hedge against ...
Published 26 Jan, 2015 06:59am
Emerging markets will have a much tougher time in this deflationary world
Published 12 Jan, 2015 06:03am
The paradox of the German view on debt is that Germany has been the biggest developed world beneficiary of debt
Published 06 Jan, 2015 07:03am
Yields in the eurozone sovereign debt markets have fallen to such low levels that they are, in effect.
Updated 17 Nov, 2014 08:04am
There is the wider concern that stability and predictability, which provide the underpinnings of economic...
Updated 22 Sep, 2014 09:08pm
The most powerful impediment to growth is a loss of confidence in the systems that made rising global interdependence
Published 25 Aug, 2014 06:27am
