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[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Sign up to get this weekly column as a newsletter. We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. CNN  —  “Buy land,” the saying goes, “they’re not making it anymore.” Variously attributed to Mark Twain and Will Rogers, …

[ad_1] London CNN  —  British Prime Minister Liz Truss admitted mistakes had been made with her government’s controversial “mini-budget” announced last week – which sent the pound to historic lows and sparked market chaos – but stood by her policies. Speaking to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday morning Truss …

[ad_1] London CNN Business  —  The Bank of England said Wednesday it would buy UK government debt “on whatever scale is necessary” in an emergency intervention to halt a bond market crash that it warned could threaten financial stability. Investors have been dumping the pound and UK bonds since the …

[ad_1] London CNN Business  —  The pound may have paused its headlong crash toward parity with the US dollar, but the damage to the UK economy sparked by Prime Minister Liz Truss’ huge tax-cutting gamble is still rippling through financial markets. Sterling stabilized early Tuesday to trade near $1.08, bouncing …

[ad_1] Hong Kong CNN Business  —  Hong Kong stocks hit their lowest level in more than a decade Thursday and other Asian markets also fell after the US Federal Reserve raised rates by 75 basis points and forecast even more hikes ahead, fueling concerns about a recession. The Hang Seng …

[ad_1] Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) in Washington, July 27, 2022. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters The Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates by 0.75%, or 75 basis points, for the third-consecutive time …

[ad_1] Morsa Images | E+ | Getty Images As investors digest another 0.75 percentage point interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve, government bonds may be signaling distress in the markets. Ahead of news from the Fed, the policy-sensitive 2-year Treasury yield climbed to 4.006% on Wednesday, the highest level …

[ad_1] From rising inflation to a red-hot job market and the negative gross domestic product in between, economists are divided on the health of the U.S. economy. “There has been a lot of talk recently that we’re in a recession. We have two quarters of declining GDP that often happens …