The world economy has proven surprisingly durable in the face of President Donald Trump’s trade wars, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Tuesday, upgrading its outlook for ...

The largest economy in the world, in terms of Nominal GDP as of December 2025, is the United States, with a GDP of $ 30.615 ...

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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 ...

For two centuries, mainstream economics has promised that abstract models and free markets would deliver prosperity, ...

Financial intermediaries that channel money from businesses and households desiring to save to others desiring to borrow ...

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.

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 ...

The global economy is adjusting to a landscape reshaped by new policy measures. Some extremes of higher tariffs were tempered, thanks to subsequent deals and resets. But the overall environment ...

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 ...