(PHOTO: UNSPLASH) December 3, 2021/IMFBlog By Tobias Adrian and Gita Gopinath With inflationary pressures intensifying and Omicron generating new uncertainties, monetary policymakers are facing new and challenging tradeoffs. The resurgence of the pandemic and the latest variant, Omicron, have sharply increased uncertainty around global economic prospects. This comes as several countries grapple with […]

(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 […]