Irwin Stelzer

Screaming for the attention of the presidential candidates are the failure of green policies, the plight of poor white children, soaring debt and threats to the world order. They won’t go there

Economists disagree on whether to expect a soft landing or a crash but an interest rate cut is certainly on the cards

With no second presidential debate, Kamala Harris’s uneconomic policies and Donald Trump’s wild pronouncements go untested

The Fed cut rates, but the US is still in financial trouble and the government is picking winners and losers

Both candidates have approached the problem of the nation’s finances in the manner of ostriches, heads firmly implanted in the ground

Some want big 0.5% steps in reducing the cost of borrowing, but the economy may be running hot enough to reawaken inflation and then there is the prospect of war

Still, the house in which Americans live remains the best in the global neighbourhood. Capitalism outranks adversaries’ systems in scope of individual freedoms

The currency’s supremacy has been been called into question as a Brics summit set out plans to dethrone it. But perhaps the bigger problem lies closer to home

The central bank must rely on conflicting data when setting monetary policy — and Americans can’t seem to decide what sort of economy they want

Rising prices were at odds with the promises of the Democratic candidate, delivering a landslide for Donald Trump and an uncertain new world