Tax debates make for strange bedfellows. During the long, slow recovery from the Great Recession, Americans became accustomed to a familiar economic debate — Keynesians, usually aligned with the Democratic Party, would call for more government spending in order to stimulate the economy, while Republicans would call for cuts in outlays. Eventually, a compromise was reached, though dangerous theatrics were …

Patrick Drahi, the telecoms billionaire whose debt-fuelled expansion spree is running out of steam, is finding it hard to break free of a downward markets spiral. A full-blown bear attack is still ongoing after last month’s profit warning from Altice SA, the Drahi holding company. Hedge funds have piled up negative bets on a stock that’s fallen 56 percent since …

With the ongoing synchronized pick-up in global growth, systemically important central banks will likely be more willing and able in 2018 to start and, in one case continue, the normalisation of monetary policy. But what is true for the central banking community as a whole is more nuanced when assessed at the level of individual institutions. Here is the outlook …