of machinery, equipment, and consumer products. As a result, China is theworld's largest economy. In 2020, it contributed $23.01 trillion, or 18.3%, of the world's $125.65 trillion ingross domestic product(GDP). This size means that any slowdown in China’s economy affects the whole ...
3 Ways the Stock Market Affects the Economy Stock markets affect the economy in three critical ways: They allow small investors to invest in the economy. They help savers beat inflation. They help businesses fund growth. How a Stock Market Crash Affects the Economy Stock prices rise in the ex...
However, with the Trump administration underway, there are concerns that the US government may impose trade tariffs, as seen during the US-China trade conflict. The president-elect aims to raise the levy on global imports by up to 20% and, for China, up to 100%. The strict rules governin...
(because it has been the world’s major reserve currency country and the world’s leading power, thus making it the world’s leading shaper of what one might call the American world order since 1944), I also very briefly describe the Big Cycles of both China and Japan, showing them from...
Helsinki-based associate Elina Mäkelä discusses the importance of gender diversity on Europe’s economy, which she says is a societal and ethical issue. It’s also a question of value, since diverse companies demonstrably outperform their peers by
That is because the memories of the prior period in which there was great damage done affects psychology and pricing. For example, in the late 1940s and early 1950s stock earning’s yields were roughly 4x that of bond yields. 在周期的这一阶段,"风险资产 "相对于 "安全 "资产要便宜得多。
A slowing Chinese economy might be good or bad for the world, depending on how it affects the relationship between domestic savings and domestic investment, and this itself depends on whether Beijing drives the rebalancing process in an orderly way or is forced into a disorderly rebalancing by ex...
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the five biggest spenders in 2023 were the United States, China, Russia, India, and Saudi Arabia. Together, these countries made up 60% of global military spending. In 2023, U.S. military expenditure increased by 2.3% ...
Just as fiscal policy can affect the national economy, the national economy and its interactions with the rest of the world can affect a country's government and public sector. The national economy and external forces affect the level and composition of government revenue, the magnitude and ...
The Fed has a couple of tools it can use to keep the economy growing at a reasonable pace. It controls interest rates by setting the key rates it charges to the nation's banks for overnight loans of government money. The rates for all other loans are derived from those federal lending...