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[ad_1] Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen called on Sunday for international creditors to speed up their efforts to provide debt relief to developing countries facing default, arguing that shoring up their deteriorating finances would benefit the global economy. Speaking in Gandhinagar, India, ahead of a gathering of finance ministers from the Group of 20 nations, […]

[ad_1] Federal Reserve officials were concerned about sluggish progress toward lower inflation and wary about the surprising staying power of the American economy at their June meeting — so much so that some even wanted to raise rates last month, instead of holding them steady as the central bank ultimately Did minutes from the gathering

[ad_1] Existential hand-wringing has always been part of Hollywood\’s personality. But the crisis in which the entertainment capital now finds itself is different. Instead of one unwelcome disruption to face—the VCR boom of the 1980s, for instance—or even overlapping ones (streaming, the pandemic), the movie and television business is being buffeted on a dizzying number

[ad_1] Tens of millions of Americans have changed jobs over the past two years, a tidal wave of quitting that reflected — and helped create — a rare moment of worker power as employees demanded higher pay, and as employers, short on staff, often gave it to them. But the \”great resignation,\” as it came

[ad_1] Atherectomies and other procedures on Kelly Hanna\’s veins and arteries started in February 2019. Her records do not always show which vessels Dr. Mustapha performed procedures on, instead of only indicating which leg. That August, Ms. Hanna\’s right baby toe had to be amputated. Just over a year after the first procedure, she had

[ad_1] Why It Matters: The Fed\’s next move on interest rates is unclear. Policymakers at the Federal Reserve have worried about the strength of the labor market as they continue to tackle stubbornly high inflation. The Fed chose to leave interest rates unchanged in its June meeting after 10 consecutive increases. The JOLTS report is

[ad_1] Surging demand for metals used in electric vehicle batteries has kicked off an international race to mine the deep seas. And there are no rules. On Sunday, the International Seabed Authority missed an important deadline to establish a regulatory framework, which means that companies can now apply for licenses before rules are final. Representatives

[ad_1] To install Emily. These days, a whole flood of Americans are in Paris. People spent 2020 and 2021 either cooped up at home or traveling sparingly and mostly within the continental US. But after Covid travel restrictions were lifted for international trips last summer, Americans are again headed overseas. While domestic leisure travel shows

[ad_1] The government of the US Virgin Islands said in a court filing on Friday that it is seeking at least $190 million in penalties from JPMorgan Chase for the bank\’s failure to detect and report the sex trafficking operation run by the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein in the US territory. . Lawyers for the

[ad_1] From movie theaters to military spending, here\’s how one of the world\’s most important economic relationships stacks up. [ad_2]