“In a way, one can afford a lower interest rate with a smaller balance sheet.” Source: fortune.com

Prime minister details efforts to attract investment and sign trade deals with other countries in 10-minute video address Source: theguardian.com

White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss the state of the economy, impact of the Iran war, his thoughts on Fed Chair nominee Kevin Warsh, state of U.S.-Iran peace talks, and more. Source: cnbc.com

Lina Khan is getting constant calls from Democrats, many of them thinking about presidential runs, to sound out problems and workshop potential solutions. That’s a shift from when she was Federal Trade Commission chair and some party leaders avoided meetings or events with her. Khan hasn’t changed so much as the world around her has. […]

I recently heard a terrifying prediction: Advances in defense technology will change the way war is waged today as much as industrialization did in World War I. If true — and I don’t know one way or another, my area of expertise is economics — then we could be facing casualties on an unimaginable scale, […]

At the IMF meetings, Beijing rejected criticism from others about its trade position. Source: bloomberg.com