In 2013 julio rotemberg, an economist, proposed a theory of what drove once-in-a-generation shifts at the Federal Reserve: penitence. Something deplorable would happen in the economy, like the Depression in the 1930s or the great inflation of the 1970s.
António Costa attempted to convince Catarina Martins and, above all, Jerónimo de Sousa, but only unsuccessfully. The Bloco voted against the state budget as did the PCP and the five abstentions by the PAN and the two independent MPS were not enough even to get the bill through to the phase of specialist discussion. now, after Marcelo has sounded out the parties and the council of state, this is what will follow.
James Astill, Washington bureau chief and Lexington columnist, The Economist Washington, DCW
The year ahead in America will be a big improvement on its awful predecessor. The country was wracked by such a series of scandals and disasters in 2020...
Jaime Nogueira Pinto
The 2020 US elections were one of the most tense and bipartisan in the history of the United States. The projections by most Polling Institutes and the media hinted that Joe Biden would win by a large...
José Galamba de Oliveira, President at Portuguese Association of Insurers
Between 1 January and 30 June 2021, Portugal takes over the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It is the fourth time that Portugal holds the presidency...
Paulo Sande, Visiting Professor at the Institute for Political Studies at the Portuguese Catholic University
What it does actually and what it is there for
Firstly and strictly speaking it means holding the Presidency of the Council of the European Union...
In an interview with PRÉMIO, Germano de Sousa, clinical pathologist and president of the josé Germano de Sousa Laboratory Medicine Centre, spoke about his career as a doctor, his former position as President of the Portuguese Doctors Association and the growth of his network of laboratories, operating in the field of clinical pathology laboratory trials and the main national player in this sector, currently performing 15 to 16% of Covid tests in Portugal.
Vasco Rato, University Teacher
The US presidential election in 2020 will take place on 3rd November. Biden and Trump are the presidential candidates in the country’s 59th presidential election.American presidential elections invariably spawn a substantial amount of attention throughout much of...
It all started 22 years ago on Madison Avenue. Three of the world’s most senior financial PR professionals met to discuss a ground-breaking alliance, that would change the shape of the communications industry.
Over two days in late April 2023, The Economist spent over eight hours in conversation with Dr Kissinger. Just weeks before his 100th birthday, the former secretary of state and national security adviser laid out his concerns about the risks of great power conflict and offered solutions for how to avoid it. This is a transcript of the conversation, lightly edited for clarity.
A new geopolitical and economic order is being written through the emergence of China as an economic, military and diplomatic superpower and threatening the status of the United States. We are heading towards a multipolar world in which the search for strategic autonomy is changing the dynamics of international trade for the worse. Nothing will be more determinant to the world’s destiny over forthcoming years than the relationship between Beijing and Washington. Europe risks being a mere bystander.
