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Two Americans just won the economics Nobel. Here's what they actually figured out.

Robert Hall and Michael Woodford: their training, their work on expectations and central bank policy, and why it changed how the world fights recessions and inflation.

Central banks can't print oil. Here's why that matters right now.

Oil is near $100 and the Strait of Hormuz is still shut. Why rate hikes can't fix an energy shock, and why central banks are hiking anyway.

Trump wants rates at 1%. The Fed chair he picked just raised them anyway.

Why the president is pushing for lower rates, why the Fed hiked anyway, and why the man in the middle is the one Trump chose for the job.

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Written by Pierre

An economics and finance student at UQAM, I spent several years running my own construction businesses before heading back to school. That detour taught me something: most economic concepts that sound complicated aren't — they're just badly explained.

Markets in Plain grew out of that idea. Each piece takes a current economic or financial story and explains it without jargon and without assuming a background in the subject.

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