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What are the potential impacts of China's restrictions on U.S. companies for trade and the economy?

How do changes in Iranian oil exports affect global energy prices and local economies?

Sellers of Iranian crude to China have slashed prices after the Islamic Republic started shipping out millions of barrels following the interim peace deal that with the US

What impact do you think Alan Greenspan's leadership had on the economy, and how should we remember his role today?

The pre-eminent economic policymaker of his time and a skilled political operator, his market-friendly stances would later come to be associated with destructive financial forces

What impact might the Federal Reserve's decision to keep rates steady have on the economy and everyday people?

Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Jerome Powell Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg

What should be done about companies involved in cryptocurrency transactions with countries under sanctions?

CoinEx has also interacted with terrorist organizations, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and sanctioned Russian entities

What are the possible effects of tariffs on countries that create new digital taxes?

President Donald Trump threatened European countries on Friday, warning them not to implement a new digital services tax or risk a “100% tariff” on all their exports to the United States. The president had signaled during his tariff war last year that he viewed DSTs as one of the most unfair trade practices brought against American companies, […]

What implications does the shift of economists into political advocacy have for public trust in economic policy?

Kevin Hassett might do Trump’s bidding at the Federal Reserve, marking a new stage in the president’s control over the American economy

How might freezing rents in New York affect families and the housing market in our community?

A city board packed with Mamdani appointees voted in favor of the Mayor’s key campaign promise

What are the possible effects of rent increases and rent freezes on our community's housing options?

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has promised relief for rent-stabilized tenants. But thousands of apartments under a separate city program are subject to increases, creating an awkward contrast

What should Iraq do about its oil output limits within OPEC, and how could this affect the country and the world?

BAGHDAD, June 25 (Reuters) - Iraq will be compelled to consider all available options if its OPEC quota is not significantly increased, a senior Iraqi oil ministry official told Reuters on Thursday. Separate sources told Reuters Iraqi officials had considered leaving OPEC, but the current plan was to remain a member and seek a higher quota. The prospect of Iraq considering an exit from OPEC would be a further blow to the group after the departure of the United Arab Emirates this year. Iraq is one of five founding members and the group was formed in the Iraqi capital

What should be done to help Iran rebuild its economy while ensuring lasting peace in the region?

The US has temporarily allowed Iran to export oil and indicated it will provide billions to relieve the crisis triggered by the war. With ordinary Iranians at their limit, however, Tehran already fears new protests

What are the different ways Brexit has changed the economy, and how should we respond to these changes?

Data: Factset; Chart: Danielle Alberti/Axios Brexit is the real-world test of what happens when a major economy voluntarily raises trade barriers, restricts the free flow of workers and generates years of policy uncertainty — all at once. A decade since the vote to leave the European Union, the results are largely in. Why it matters: The economic drag came from overlapping effects. Businesses held off on investment as uncertainty dragged on, executives spent years consumed by Brexit logistics, and the firms most integrated with European markets were often the ones hit hardest. By the numbers: Since the Brexit referendum, the U.K. economy has grown about 13% — less than half the American pace over the same period, according to FactSet calculations. But even that growth gap might understate the cost of Brexit. A paper updated this month from economists at Stanford, the Bank of England, King's College London and the University of Nottingham estimates that by the end of 2025, Brexit had made the U.K. economy between 6% and 8% smaller than it would have been had the country voted to remain. The authors estimate business investment was between 12% and 13% lower than the counterfactual, a gap that widened gradually over the full decade.Both employment and productivity were as much as 4% lower than they otherwise would have been, the authors estimate. The intrigue: Economists who predicted Brexit's costs before the vote were roughly right in the first five years — but few understood how much the damage would keep piling up over a full decade, the authors note in the paper. The bottom line, via Axios' Zach Basu: Britain remains marooned in a low-growth cycle: saddled with trade friction, high prices, strained public services and a hyper-sensitive electorate that tolerates virtually no political failure. Go deeper: Britain's lost decade