The global hunger crisis is here
May 22,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Seta Tutundjian DUBAI — Global food prices are soaring. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Food Price Index, which covers a basket of […]
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The ghost of Christmas inflation
Dec 26,2021 – Last updated at Dec 26,2021 John H. Cochrane STANFORD — Inflation continues to surge. From its inflection point in February 2021 to last month, the US consumer price index has grown 6 per cent — an 8 per cent annualised rate. The underlying cause is no mystery. […]
Islam’s Response to the Global Economic Crisis
by Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad Ayyaz, Khuddam Event Bradford, UK. 13th February 2010 It is a great privilege and honour for me to be given this opportunity to address this meeting […]
Rising global inequality heightens risk of social chaos
RANVIR S. NAYAR December 10, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/983wy The World Inequality Report 2022 released earlier this week by the World Inequality Lab paints a dismal picture, with inequality continuing […]
Pakistani microfinance pioneer wins Asia’s ‘Nobel Prize’
Source: Dawn A microfinance pioneer from Pakistan — who developed an interest-free microfinance programme — was among Tuesday’s winners of Asia’s equivalent to the Nobel Prize. Muhammad Amjad Saqib, 64, […]
Why Are Home Prices Soaring?
Source: WSJ One reason is a tariff on Canadian lumber that Biden can kill. Housing prices are climbing across the country, and the cause is more than soaring demand. One overlooked culprit is a lumber shortage made worse by a U.S. tariff on imports from Canada. The U.S and Canada […]
Microsoft wins U.S. Army contract for augmented-reality headsets, worth up to $21.9 billion over 10 years
Source: CNBC By Jordan Novet, who is a CNBC technology reporter specializing in artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and Microsoft and other enterprise software companies and products. KEY POINTS Microsoft will […]
White House aides prep $3 trillion jobs package for Biden
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page By Phil Mattingly, CNN Updated 3:23 PM ET, Mon March 22, 2021 (CNN) White House advisers […]
With Covid relief passed, Biden prepares to stake his presidency and Democratic majorities on infrastructure
Source: CNBC PUBLISHED WED, MAR 10 20212:52 PM EST, By Thomas Franck @TOMWFRANCK KEY POINTS With President Joe Biden’s Covid stimulus package set to become law, the White House now […]
10% GDP growth? The U.S. economy is on fire, and is about to get stoked even more
Source: CNBC Economic growth in the first quarter could hit 10%, according to a Federal Reserve tracker. That comes with Congress poised to spend another $1.9 trillion to address various areas. Manufacturing is at its highest level since 2018, with prices rising and inventories choked. Employment remains the main weak […]
The pandemic’s long economic shadow
Jan 03,2021 – JORDAN TIMES – Stephen S. Roach NEW HAVEN — The outlook for economic and financial markets hinges on the interplay between two cycles, the COVID-19 cycle and the business cycle. Notwithstanding the true miracles of modern science that we are now witnessing, the post-pandemic economy is in […]
What economic experts are certain of about 2021: More global uncertainty
2020 was the year of the biggest economic downturn in nearly a century, a brief but dramatic collapse in world commerce, and the most tumultuous year for crude oil in […]
LAUNCH OF NEW ECONOMICS SECTION: Rekindling the Flame of Morals in Economics
Ahmad Danyal Arif 29th December 2020 THE REVIEW OF RELIGIONS Message from Chief Editor: We are pleased to announce to readers the launch of a new ‘Economics’ section in The […]
The case for a quadripolar world
Dec 12,2020 -JORDAN TIMES By BDaron Acemoglu, professor of Economics at MIT, is co-author (with James A. Robinson) of “The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty”. Copyright: […]
Central Banks Sell Gold for First Time in a Decade
Source: Bloomberg By Eddie Spence; October 29, 2020, 1:00 AM EDT Turkish and Uzbek central banks lead selling in third quarter Overall gold demand fell 19% year-on-year: World Gold Council Central […]
I’m A Restaurant Owner. Covid Has My Entire Industry Hanging By A Thread
Source: MSN Owning and operating a restaurant is like riding a rollercoaster. There are days of absolute highs, but there are also days of complete lows, when you’re just not […]
The travel industry won’t survive the coronavirus pandemic without a radical change of direction
Source: Independent UK Travel has therefore profoundly shaped the modern UK economy. Yet for many UK tour agents and operators, the situation could soon prove terminal By Ali Shah The UK […]
Don’t be misled by today’s unemployment figures – a hurricane of job losses is coming
We can reasonably expect the number of people in the UK out of work to rise to between three and four million – a far graver toll, at the upper […]
The future of work is remote
And the future is here The 5G era will bring unprecedented and transformative opportunities across industries. As a leader in enterprise mobility, T-Mobile for Business experts weigh in on how […]