Bloomberg Chile’s inflation rate fell for the first time in three months in February after the economy expanded at the slowest pace in almost six years. Consumer prices rose 4.7 percent from the year earlier, the National Institute of Statistics said in a report on its website, compared with 4.8 percent the month before. The median estimate of 19 analysts ...

Bloomberg In an American election season that’s turned into a bonfire of the orthodoxies, one taboo survives pretty much intact: Deficits are dangerous. A school of dissident economists wants to toss that one onto the flames, too. It’s a propitious time to make the case, and not just in the U.S. Whether it’s negative interest rates, or helicopter money that ...

Ankara / AFP Turkish warplanes pounded Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq on Monday, the day after a suicide car bomb tore through downtown Ankara killing at least 36 people, the third attack on the capital in five months. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the latest carnage, which reduced cars and buses to charred hulks on a ...