(Illustration: Ben Ferguson) December 2, 2021/IMFBlog By Gita Bhatt The Economics of Health and Well-Being (imf.org) Just as good health—mental and physical—is fundamental to individual well-being, public health is fundamental to stable, cohesive societies. That is the lesson we must take from the COVID-19 pandemic. The inextricable link between human and economic health is […]

December 2, 2021/US Federal Reserve Governor Randal K. Quarles When I joined the Board of Governors as Vice Chair for Supervision in the fall of 2017, the Federal Reserve was in the latter stages of a decade-long effort to build a new financial regulatory framework, responding to the financial crisis […]

November 29, 2021/Fitch Ratings It is too soon to incorporate the effects of the Omicron coronavirus variant into our economic growth forecasts until more is known about its transmissibility and severity, Fitch Ratings says. We currently believe that another large, synchronized global downturn, such as that seen in 1H20, is […]