Trump to nominate Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antoni as Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner after McEntarfer firingPresident Donald Trump announced plans to nominate Heritage Foundation chief economist E.J. Antoni as Bureau of Labor Statistics commission...
12 Aug, 2025, 06.48 AM IST
Revisiting the economics of tariffsEscalating tariff battles, exemplified by the US-China trade war and reminiscent of the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Act, threaten global economic wel...
06 May, 2025, 11.32 AM IST
China fudges official GDP numbers? Here's what a top economist is sayingOne of the well-known and famous economist from China pretty recently asserted that the GDP numbers of the country China might not be actua...
17 Dec, 2024, 01.43 AM IST
What is causing record floods and heatwaves in China?Authorities have issued extreme weather warnings in multiple regions, while experts warned that these phenomena were more evidence of the i...
25 Jun, 2022, 07.37 AM IST
Govt stimulus must aim for maximum impact at minimum cost: Nilesh Shah‘Out-of-box thinking needed to prepare economy for an upturn when a medical solution emerges’
13 May, 2020, 01.49 PM IST
View: The blackest swanTruly unpredictable negative shocks are almost a certainty.
17 Feb, 2020, 11.08 AM IST
This is how China's regions fare in the fake GDP data stakesAfter a spate of admissions to fabricating data, doubts about the accuracy of provincial-level figures are throwing a shadow on the remarka...
19 Jan, 2018, 03.40 PM IST
Rexit: This government has just shot itself in the footHis exit sends worrying signals on both the political front and economic front (whether his battles against inflation and crony capitalism ...
22 Jun, 2016, 04.38 PM IST
POKE ME: Transparency of data collection practices and procedures holds the key to good policymakingNo one would quibble with her view that the world of economic and financial statistics is not ‘static’, and that markets evolve, and policy...
16 Jun, 2016, 07.05 PM IST
Is the government cooking up economic growth data?The question has been raised by critics after the news that statistical “discrepancies” in the January-March quarter were as high as 4.8% o...
12 Jun, 2016, 12.10 PM IST
Take guard! It smells like a bubble: ‘Buffett indicator’ rings alarm bells for D-StreetThe ‘Buffett indicator’ for the Indian stock market shows something is majorly wrong with our stocks, and we might be on the verge of a maj...
09 Jun, 2016, 03.06 PM IST
India domestically-driven; global events may not have major impact on Indian market: Capital EconomicsIndia is very much a domestically driven economy and therefore events abroad would not necessarily have a major impact on the Indian market...
02 Sep, 2015, 01.20 PM IST
China growth beats Forecasts but stocks dive again; 6 things you need to knowChina's economy grew an annual 7 per cent in the second quarter, beating analysts' forecasts, though its volatile stock markets took a shar...
16 Jul, 2015, 08.55 AM IST
Feel-good story: India's GDP set to swellSome estimates suggest the current survey underestimates the size of the $1.87-tn economy by 2-3% while others say the gap could be even wi...
09 Sep, 2014, 12.53 PM IST
Will China and India destroy the world?Summers questioned whether it was wise for rich nations to be shored up financially by developing ones in Asia that could crash at any time.
21 Nov, 2013, 10.13 AM IST
- China fumes over leaked economic data
The reported data spurred biggest gain in benchmark Chinese share index in 2 weeks and set off a stock rally from Europe to US. China's inf...
12 Jun, 2010, 12.30 AM IST
- Japan's still world's No 2 economy ahead of China
Japan held its title as the world’s second-biggest economy after fourth-quarter growth beat expectations and kept the country just ahead of...
16 Feb, 2010, 03.11 AM IST