Geoffrey Smith
STORY ANGLES - Focuses on economic indicators and their implications: The reporter frequently covers inflation, interest rates, and labor market trends, emphasizing their impact on policy decisions and financial markets.
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 2
- Latest publication
- Aug 20, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Politico Europe
- Top 50K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 22, 2026
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Why Europe can’t escape the fallout from $40 trillion US debt woes (opens the original)
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The United States government’s $40 trillion debt pile is rapidly becoming everybody’s problem. Government borrowing costs around the world have leaped to their highest in years in recent days, reflecting fears that war, demographic decline and the imponderable consequences of technological change are all stretching Washington’s finances to breaking point. That’s spilling over into financial markets in Europe, too, because European governments have to compete with Washington for the global pool o
Ukraine’s drone strikes pile pressure on Russian economy (opens the original)
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Russia’s economy is creaking ever more loudly as the cost of financing a fifth year of war continues to mount. The latest sign of strain is a standoff between the Ministry of Finance, which has to raise the money to pay for the war, and the country’s largest banks, which are demanding ever-higher rates to finance it. The Ministry of Finance said on Monday it would suspend bond sales after a series of auctions failed to attract buyers at the yields local banks were willing to offer. Government bo
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