Central banks, by and large, have one overarching mandate: to ensure price stability and control inflation in a country. Policymakers in South Korea need to contend with another responsibility: ...
American households are carrying more debt than ever, and the numbers now rival or exceed what many peers abroad owe. To ...
Hello, this is Ohjilap. Recently, a shocking piece of news emerged. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), South Korea’s government debt-to-GDP ratio is projected to increase at the ...
ORLANDO, Florida, Feb 18 (Reuters) - U.S. debt Cassandras can point to news of the country's record household debt figure last week as yet another sign that the day of reckoning for the heavily ...
WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Global public debt is projected to rise above 100% of gross domestic product by 2029, reaching its highest level since 1948 and continuing to climb, the IMF said on ...
Piling up debt through irresponsible budgeting can seem like part of human nature. In “How Countries Go Broke”, a book released in June, Ray Dalio, founder of the hedge fund Bridgewater, argues that ...
Major policy shifts underway have heightened global uncertainty. The series of recent tariff announcements by the United States, and countermeasures by other countries have increased financial market ...