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It is becoming clear that President Trump’s actions are driven by both his fixation on reducing the US trade deficit and his transactional approach to dealing with other countries. So, even though the Trump administration’s ideas to transform the entire …
25th March 2025
The UN’s annual climate change conference, COP26, will not have any discernible impact on Norway’s intention to keep pumping oil and gas over the coming decades. The irony is that Norway’s success in handling its resource windfall means that it is well …
10th November 2021
Housing market valuations in Sweden are even more stretched than on past occasions when the Riksbank has “leant against the wind” – that is, set policy tighter than needed to contain consumer price inflation. While we think the Bank is unlikely to raise …
1st September 2021
Sweden’s contrary policy response to the pandemic reduced the depth of its economic slump at the expense of worse public health outcomes. But the data so far suggest that its experience stands out less than one might have expected, both in terms of …
12th August 2020
It is by no means inevitable that the coronavirus crisis puts a big permanent hole in the supply capacity of economies (i.e. their ability to produce goods and services). With the right government policies, many economies should be able more or less to …
29th June 2020
There is little evidence that negative interest rates have succeeded in boosting economic growth or inflation expectations. But equally, they do not seem to have done much harm either – many of the criticisms levelled at them have been wide of the mark. …
9th December 2019
The acquisition of reserve assets by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) has seen it take on a role more suited to fund managers than central bankers. Faced with the prospect of negative bond yields further and further along the curve, we think that …
21st August 2019
