#David Malpass

Author: Peter Baker / Source: New York Times Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Trump plans to nominate David Malpass, the under secretary of the Treasury for international affairs, to head the World Bank, picking an outspoken critic of the institution who has pushed to

At the start of the year, one of the often repeated risk factors was that a trade war between China and the US could break out due to Trump's hardline stance on the US trade deficit with Beijing. Since then, such fears have largely faded as the status quo re-established itself, and trade between

Authored by James Rickards via The Daily Reckoning, President Trump is expected to nominate the next Federal Reserve chair within a matter of days. As I’ve explained before, Donald Trump has the opportunity to appoint a higher percentage of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve system at

While virtually nobody expects anything market shattering, or even moving, to be released during either Janet Yellen's or Mario Draghi's speeches tomorrow (recall from our preview what UBS said: "Don't expect news at Jackson Hole. Chair Yellen has told us what she wants to about normalization, for

Authored by Brendan Brown via The Mises Institute, The shock landslide defeat of PM Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the recent Tokyo metropolitan elections - and the triumph there of Tokyo Governor Koike’s new party (Tomin First) - has lit a faint hope that the radical Japanese