“While challenging in the short term, even the longest shutdowns rarely alter long-term economic trends, and GDP (gross ...

Japan has reported its economy contracted at a 1.8% annual pace in July-September as President Donald Trump’s tariffs hurt ...

Peer into The Economist’s decision-making processes with Tom Standage, our deputy editor, who explains how we select and ...

Amid rising geopolitical rifts and trade tensions, global economic uncertainty has surged, yet sentiment about economic ...

The world is undergoing a great economic reordering, the third such transformation in the past century. The United States has been at the helm of each one, shaping the global economy in ways that ...

A record downward revision to annual US job growth, paired with no surprises in the latest inflation data, sealed the deal for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates next week. While traders are ...

By the end of March 2026 India will overtake Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy. But the country falls short ...

Excess regulation harms economic activity by increasing compliance costs and misallocating resources away from more profitable activities, thus discouraging innovation, investment, and economic growth ...

The global economy is running in a “paradigm vacuum” as the classical theories of marginal change, equilibrium and rational markets are breaking down. Amid the void, University of Oxford professor ...

The copper price outlook for the medium to long-term remains upbeat amid signs of a supply deficit and heightened demand from ...

Voters now overwhelmingly say President Donald Trump is responsible for the current state of the economy, according to late June survey data. Overall, 55 percent of respondents to a Wall Street ...

Award-winning economist Dawie Roodt said South Africa became a crumbling economy with crumbling infrastructure.