It’s not especially fun for a plane lessor to tell shareholders that more than 100 aircraft formerly on lease to Russian airlines may be gone for good, especially when the aerospace industry is only just recovering from a global pandemic. Still, AerCap NV did a decent job explaining why its remaining $2.5 billion exposure to Russia shouldn’t cause investors ...

When I am trying to understand the macroeconomy, I often find myself resorting to one of my favorite sayings: All propositions about real interest rates are wrong. For starters, let’s define the real interest rate, or more properly a term series of real interest rates. If the long rate is published at say 6%, that is the nominal long rate. ...

The fastest growing niche of the global smartphone business isn’t the latest, greatest upgrade. It’s used phones, and American companies are leaders in supplying them to consumers at home and abroad. It’s a commercial success story with environmental and social benefits. But thanks to a provision hidden in a sprawling legislative trade- and industrial-policy package recently passed by the US ...