A weekly column written by Duncan Weldon and produced by the Clark Center for Global Markets. Each week, Weldon explores timely topics of macroeconomic importance.
The regulation of Big Tech, the internet, and digital markets in general is a realm of transatlantic diversion. The last decade has seen the European Union (EU) press ahead with its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – which brought about strict laws on data handling – and enact the Digital Markets Act, which designated some […]
Over the coming few weeks, alongside the regular coverage of the Clark Center’s polls and other news, On Global Markets will be reporting on the discussions held at the Economic Experts Conference 9/10 October. Most of those sessions were held under the Chatham House Rule. Big Tech is of increasing importance to the American economy. […]
Wall Street certainly seems, despite recent wobbles, to be optimistic about the future of artificial intelligence. Despite some chaotic policymaking, the imposition of the steepest tariffs since the 1930s, a lengthy government shutdown and mounting concerns about the health of the jobs market, the benchmark S&P 500 index has advanced around 15% this year and […]
Over the coming few weeks, alongside the regular coverage of the Clark Center’s polls and other news, On Global Markets will be reporting on the discussions held at the Economic Experts Conference 9/10 October. Most of those sessions were held under the Chatham House Rule. While tariffs have, understandably, dominated discussion of trade policy in […]
Over the coming few weeks, alongside the regular coverage of the Clark Center’s polls and other news, On Global Markets will be reporting on the discussions held at the Economic Experts Conference 9/10 October. Most of those sessions were held under the Chatham House Rule. The polls of the Clark Center’s various Expert Panels often […]
Over the coming few weeks, alongside the regular coverage of the Clark Center’s polls and other news, On Global Markets will be reporting on the discussions held at the Economic Experts Conference 9/10 October. Most of those sessions were held under the Chatham House Rule. The public, as election results around the globe over the […]
Over the coming few weeks, alongside the regular coverage of the Clark Center’s polls and other news, On Global Markets will be reporting on the discussions held at the Economic Experts Conference 9/10 October. Most of those sessions were held under the Chatham House Rule. The 2010s feel like a long time ago. In economic […]
Over the coming few weeks, alongside the regular coverage of the Clark Center’s polls and other news, On Global Markets will be reporting on the discussions held at the Economic Experts Conference 9/10 October. Most of those sessions were held under the Chatham House Rule. It has been three and a half years since Russia […]
Over the coming few weeks, alongside the regular coverage of the Clark Center’s polls and other news, On Global Markets will be reporting on the discussions held at the Economic Experts Conference 9/10 October. Most of those sessions were held under the Chatham House Rule, but the fireside chat on the BLS was not. While […]
If the United States government were an asset manager, one could imagine it adopting quite a smug and self-satisfied tone when it penned its latest monthly update for investors. As CNBC reported yesterday, the government’s chunky 10% stake in Intel, acquired in late August, is comfortably in the black. Shares of U.S. chipmaker Intel climbed […]