Ryan Cummings

2 months ago | businesslive.co.za | Ryan Cummings

Support our award-winning journalism. The Premium package (digital only) is R30 for the first month and thereafter you pay R129 p/m now ad-free for all subscribers. President Cyril Ramaphosa, left, and Rwanda President Paul Kagame are shown at a meeting in April 2024 in this file photo.

Nov 21, 2024 | rhg.com | Lily Bermel |Ryan Cummings |Brian Deese

Clean energy and transportation investment in the United States continued its record-setting growth in Q3 of 2024, reaching a new high of $71 billion. This continues a nearly unbroken quarter-on-quarter growth trend over the past three years, and marks a 12% increase in Q3 of 2024 from the same period in 2023. Clean investment accounted for 5% of total US private investment in structures, equipment, and durable consumer goods in the United States, compared to 4.5% in Q3 2023.

Oct 22, 2024 | briefingbook.info | Ryan Cummings

We analyze the University of Michigan’s (UMich) Consumer Sentiment survey’s (“sentiment”) recent change in survey methodology from collecting interviews via phone to collection via the Internet. We document several features of this new sample that we believe are materially affecting the results of the survey.

Dec 4, 2023 | briefingbook.info | Ryan Cummings

One commonly proposed explanation for weak consumer sentiment despite easing annual inflation is that consumers are still digesting the impact of prior years’ price increases. While prices rose only 3.2 percent this year, they increased by a cumulative 18.6 percent over the last 3 years, and these prior price increases may still be weighing negatively on consumer sentiment.

Nov 23, 2023 | africanarguments.org | Connie Nagiah |Margaret Mapondera |Richard Dowden |Ryan Cummings

The climate talks at COP28 in Dubai this November-December will once again be dominated by rich governments, multinational corporations, and elites pushing their greenwashing “solutions” and lobbying for their vested interests.