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Key Points$10,000 in Berkshire Hathaway shares in August 2016 has grown to about $33,900.The same $10,000 in an S&P 500 index fund, with dividends reinvested, grew to about $41,300.Berkshire’s operating earnings rose from $17.6 billion in 2016 to $44.5 billion in 2025.10 stocks we like better than Berkshire Hathaway ›Ten years ago this week, on Aug. 25, 2016, Berkshire Hathaway’s (NYSE:BRKA)(NYSE:BRKB) B shares closed at $148.64. Ten years later, on Aug. 25 of this year, they closed at $504.32.Berkshire pays no dividend, so the price is the whole return. A $10,000 investment became about $33,900.Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare…

Abstract Inflation expectations are central to monetary policy but are often summarized by a single statistic such as the mean or median forecast. This article argues for a distributional view in which the full cross-sectional distribution of beliefs is the relevant object. We first organize the literature around the main distributional features of inflation expectations: the level of expected inflation, disagreement across agents, subjective uncertainty within agents, skewness, and tail behavior. The literature consistently documents large and time-varying disagreement, systematic demographic heterogeneity, non-Gaussian distributions with right skewness and fat tails, and a weak relationship between disagreement and individual uncertainty. We…

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh speaks during a news conference at Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington, July 29, 2026.Win Mcnamee | Getty ImagesThe Federal Reserve’s cryptic chairman is set to deliver his much-awaited keynote address Friday in Jackson Hole, with markets trying to anticipate what, if anything, he will have to say on key matters affecting the economy and monetary policy.Kevin Warsh will speak during the Fed’s annual symposium in Wyoming, an event this year that is titled “Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy.”Prior Fed chairs have used the speech as an opportunity to discuss broad policy frameworks and…

Circle (CRCL) and Coinbase (COIN) shares both fell more than 3% after reports that JPMorgan Chase and a consortium of major banks were moving toward issuing their own stablecoins following the advancement of the CLARITY Act. The news focused attention on the potential for traditional lenders to compete with crypto-native issuers such as Circle and Tether.The selloff followed a Wall Street Journal report that U.S. banks are warming to stablecoins as nonbank issuers expand and executives worry the tokens could encroach on traditional banking. JPMorgan Chase has explored a potential stablecoin, though the discussions remain preliminary and no product is…

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A view of a destroyed building of a research institute following an attack, which local Russian-installed officials called a Ukrainian strike, in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, on August 26, 2026, amid the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict.Stringer | Afp | Getty ImagesRussian forces have intensified attacks within Ukraine’s so-called “fortress belt” of industrial cities in the eastern Donetsk region, seeking to ramp up pressure on critical Ukrainian strongholds after more than four and a half years of full-scale war.Russian forces have long targeted the strategic cities of Kostyantynivka, Kramatorsk and Sloviansk as part of a push to completely capture the Donetsk Oblast, one…

Chinese and U.S. flags flutter near The Bund, before U.S. trade delegation meet their Chinese counterparts for talks in Shanghai, China July 30, 2019.Aly Song | ReutersBEIJING — As the U.S. ramped up pressure this week on China with secondary Iran sanctions, the world’s two largest economies have still managed to stay focused on ways to cooperate.It’s a sign of the balancing act on both sides, even as White House rhetoric has remained tough.U.S. President Donald Trump signaled to reporters Thursday local time he could be sanctioning Chinese banks. “I don’t have to announce everything,” he said, according to a…

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Co-operation with the National Bank of Tajikistan has advanced financial inclusion and the quality of corporate governance in the country, the World Bank’s representative in the central Asian state tells Central Banking.“The World Bank Group’s engagement with the National Bank of Tajikistan is ongoing and encompasses regular policy dialogue, technical assistance, analytical work, and lending operations,” says Gael Raballand, World Bank Group country manager for Tajikistan. He adds that this Only users who have a paid subscription or are part of a corporate subscription are able to print or copy content.To access these options, along with all other subscription benefits,…