The Weekly Briefing from Capital Economics
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Episode 85
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Fed week! The BoJ’s big moment, TikTok and fracturing, Putin’s war economy and more
A few hot(ish) US inflation prints has spooked the market about how easily the Federal Reserve can get back to its 2% target. In this latest episode of The Weekly Briefing from Capital Economics, Group Chief Economist Neil Shearing discusses whether those fears are justified and tells David Wilder what to expect from the coming week’s meetings from the Fed and the Bank of Japan.
He also talks TikTok, putting congressional efforts to ban the video app in the broader context of a fracturing global economy.
Plus, an exclusive clip from our recent briefing on the Russian presidential election explains why the economy has proven so resilient to sanctions and outlines what to expect under another six years of Vladimir Putin.
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