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Political economist and university professor Ahilan Kadirgamar, who took part in Saturday's protests in Colombo, puts Sri Lanka's economic and political crisis in context with a dire warning about the country's future

White House chief economist Jared Bernstein admitted that the Biden administration's use of the word "transitory" to describe inflation was wrong.

US home builder confidence plummeted 12 points to 55 in July, according to the latest data from the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index.

The US housing market is on the cusp of a “deep freeze” as rising mortgage rates and steep home prices conspire to limit buying and selling activity, an economist warned.

Carsten Brzeski, a top economist at the Dutch Bank ING, can tick off a long list of factors that could collectively tip Europe's economy into a recession.

Decades-high inflation and surging mortgage rates have crushed the buying power of would-be homeowners.

“Purchase demand continues to tumble," according to Freddie Mac chief economist Sam Khater.

Economist Phillip Magness has accused Facebook of being "Orwellian" after his recent post declaring that the US was in a recession had been fact-checked and labeled partially false.

An Iraqi actress is set to sue a British newspaper after it published a picture of her in an article about "fat" women.

Nouriel Roubini said investors would be 'delusional' to expect a Fed pivot.

Henry Kaufman said Fed Chair Jerome Powell is still 'behind the curve' on inflation.

Existing home sales dropped 5.9% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.81 million units in July.

In July, the median asking rent nationwide rose 14% year over year, reaching $2,032, according to Redfin. That's down from May and June when rent growth was 16% and 15%.

“Consumers are seeing the price of groceries rise much more than the price of restaurants or fast-food establishments," a food economist told The Post.

British consumer price inflation is set to peak at 18% — nine times the Bank of England's target — in early 2023, an economist at US bank Citi said on Monday, raising his forecast once again in the light of the latest jump in energy prices.

Ian Shepherdson, a chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, provided a bearish outlook for homeowners.

Economist Jason Furman ripped the plan as "reckless" given the current level of inflation.

"American consumers are falling way behind," an economist told The Post.

Central banks are faced with the unenviable task of trying to put a lid on decades-high inflation without triggering harsh recessions that could unleash misery around the world. But Robert Shiller, a Nobel Prize-winning economist at Yale University,...

Housing has been “in a tailspin for the whole of this year,” a prominent economist said.