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Fed Policy: Why Do Rates Hikes Hurt Stock Markets?
Fed Policy: Why Do Rates Hikes Hurt Stock Markets? On December 18th, the Federal Reserve announced a rate hike of...
Foundations of Economics: The Law of Scarcity
Foundations of Economics: The Law of Scarcity Most of the basic laws of economics focus on ways to efficiently build...
Financial Markets: What Is The Price To Earnings Ratio?
Financial Markets: What Is The Price To Earnings Ratio? For those without experience, the stock market can seem like a...
Relation between Inflation and Interest Rates (graph)
A number of people and students wonder about the relationship between inflation rate movements and the quarterly interest rate (nominal...
How is Inflation Rate Determined by a Country?
This question was recently posted. how inflation rate of any country is determined? i mean which yardstick is used to...
Introduction to Macroeconomics – Some key terms
Economics: The Study of how society deals with scarcity. Here is a brief article on the introductory components of any...
National Income Accounting in an Open Economy
This article continues on from a previous entry in our macroeconomic blog category called Balance of Payments explained. This article...
Bank of Canada Keeps Overnight Interest Rate at .5% for 3rd Quarter
The Bank of Canada announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1/2 per cent. The...