A reordering of the rules of trade, set on top of transformational change in technology, demographics and climate, is ...

Because the U.S. has the world's largest economy, fluctuations in America's interest rates affect much more than domestic ...

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Discover what the World Economic Forum (WEF) does, its annual Davos meeting, and its significant impact on global economic, social, and environmental issues.

WASHINGTON, DC - International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Titled "Policy Pivot, Rising Threats," the IMF’s key forecasts and themes ...

December labor market numbers show great strength in our nation’s economy: Some 216,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy last month, making a 2.7 million job growth in the year, the third-best ...

The 55 th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum opened this week with a powerful message and all-encompassing themes. Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum Founder and Chairman of the Board of ...

Economists sometimes present their discipline as the queen of the social sciences, a claim staked primarily on a superificial resemblance to physics: It has universal laws! Expressed in numbers! But ...

Central banks have embarked on austere monetary policy to crush inflation. Worries about the financial system, from bond markets to commercial property to the health of the banks, are ever-present.

Contrary to what a booming stock market might be suggesting, troubles are coming to the world economy not as single spies but in battalions. The United States has a major public finance and commercial ...