Currencies | December 2024

Foundation for Human Flourishing

The entire world revolves around the invented notion of money

Jeff Kearns

Artificial intelligence | December 2023

AI’s Reverberations across Finance

Financial institutions are forecast to double their spending on AI by 2027

Jeff Kearns

Trade policy | June 2023

Policymaker and Negotiator

Former Korean trade chief Yoo Myung-hee talks about her country’s rise and risk amid economic fragmentation

Jeff Kearns

Monetary policy | March 2023

Interest Is the Price of Time

Financial writing loves superlatives like “four-week high” and “most in a year.”

Jeff Kearns

Fintech | September 2022

India Embraces Mobile Money

The central bank has played a key role in the country’s digital payment boom

Jeff Kearns

ASHLIN MATHEW

Financial institutions | September 2022

Governance, Assistance, and Interference

THE GUARDIANS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY may be established fixtures today, but their roots in Allied supply management during World War I were once controversial

Jeff Kearns

Commodities | June 2022

War, Peace, and Wheat

THIS PERSUASIVE ARGUMENT that wheat plays a key role in the rise and fall of empires was published two days before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent prices for the grain soaring to a record and stirred supply fears.

Jeff Kearns