In May 2019, Pope Francis invited young economists and entrepreneurs from all over the world to brainstorm ways of making the global economy more responsive to the poor and to the planet.

The economy has significantly improved from just two years ago. Inflation has fallen substantially, and the labor market has returned to a more sustainable path. A soft landing is achievable, and the ...

When Donald Trump speaks about the economy, he sounds like a child. China gives us billions of dollars via tariffs. American auto workers take imported cars out of a box and stick the pieces together.

With less than three weeks until the U.S. presidential election, millions of Americans say the economy is a top issue as they decide how to cast their vote — an understandable focus after the ...

"Trump's fiscal pledges are seriously troublesome – for the U.S. economy and for global financial markets – as they promise to vastly expand an already excessive deficit at the same time as he ...

So declared the Competitiveness Policy Council, a committee advising America’s president and Congress, in 1992, a time when America was gripped by concerns that its economy was declining and ...

Daron Acemoglu, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences this year. Inflation seems under control. The job market remains healthy.

Americans are emerging from a yearslong funk about the economy, with the presidential election just a week away. The Conference Board’s latest consumer survey showed that Americans this month ...

This episode of What’s Ahead talks about a highly useful and enlightening book entitled The Trump Economic Miracle and the Plan to Unleash Prosperity, written by two distinguished economists ...

American shoppers continue to power the US economy. Spending at US retailers climbed 0.4% in September from the prior month, according to fresh government data released Thursday. That was much ...

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on Friday warned investors about current risks to the global economy and pointed to "critical issues" facing the U.S., in particular. "We have been closely ...

China’s recent stimulus package was the biggest shot in the arm for the world’s second-largest economy since the financial crisis of 2008. Following the announcement at the end of last month ...