A post-Lehman global currency war has kicked off since 2010 and has intensified this year. Competitive devaluation, as it is also known, involves central banks – today most prominently the Bank of ...

The latest hot topic among economic talking heads is the coming currency war. According to conventional wisdom, there’s a risk that major countries will – simultaneously – try to revive their sluggish ...

The main talking point in the foreign exchange market since the start of the year has been the escalation in rhetoric from policymakers around the globe about the value of their currencies. That has ...

Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) chief executive officer Sekai Kuvarika Zimbabwe’s biggest industry body has called for a ceasefire in the state’s relentless assault on the informal economy, ...

When President Donald Trump announced that he nominated Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Stephen Miran to fill a vacant ...

In a fragile economy, every country wants to expand its exports, and low currency values can help make products cheaper to international buyers. Could countries' efforts to stay competitive be ...

Get ready for monetary easing 3.0. That was the takeaway from Fed chair Ben Bernanke’s speech in Minneapolis today. Bernanke didn’t indicate what form easing might take. But any of the options on ...

The evolution of America’s central banking system traces back to Alexander Hamilton’s inspiration for the First Bank of the United States.

Will the mandarins at Beijing weaponize its renminbi in response to President Trump’s tariff threats? That’s the poser from the Times, which reports that “a currency war” could be started by Communist ...

The confusion and commotion over cryptocurrency often reminds me of the 19th-century German drama Faust. In Goethe’s ...