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Care for a glass of Chianti or Bordeaux after recent market volatility? It’ll cost ya. After a tense few weeks, President Donald Trump announced a 20% tariff on all EU goods, including wine. While you might think that U.S. producers would be cheering, domestic wineries and wine s ...  Show more

Overseas stock markets and U.S. stock index futures are showing an upward move in prices today, and volatility is down in sharp contrast to yesterday morning. Yesterday’s rollercoaster ride resulted from false information about a potential tariff pause. Some $2.5 trillion went in ...  Show more

Its latest report says some countries will fall into recession in 2023, but that it's too early to predict whether there will be a global recession. We get more analysis from one of the report's authors, Franziska Ohnsorge. The UK's finance ministry is considering removing limits ...  Show more

Oh today’s show we are talking about the current macro economic climate and provide a forecast for interest rates for the second half of this year. 

The fact is that we live in an interconnected world and the attempts by central bankers to look at the economic condition ...

Some economists have been warning of an imminent recession in the United States for over a year now. But so far, it has yet to strike. We’ll get into the different ways economists are thinking about how a so-called recession might play out. Also, humans are having a profound, lit ...  Show more