Forecasters believe the economy grew at a fast pace in the third quarter, though the report was delayed by the government shutdown and the data is getting stale.

When interpreting the macro economy, it is always best to look across a broad range of indicators and over longer periods of ...

Economic growth across the globe will be highly uneven, with some major economies accelerating while others hit the brakes.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bill Conerly connect the dots between the economy ... and business! The economic forecast for 2025 shows growth, but at a slower ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s comments Wednesday appeared to heighten financial experts’ fears that tariffs on goods imported to the U.S. could bring about an economic condition known as ...

Explore how demographics shape economic growth. Discover the impact of aging populations, declining birth rates, and technological advances on prosperity and labor markets.

Professor of Industrial Strategy & Regional Development, Co-Director Centre for Governance, Regulation and Industrial Strategy (CGR&IS), University of Bath Phil Tomlinson receives funding from the ...

UNTIL 1700 the world economy did not really grow—it just stagnated. Over the previous 17 centuries global output had expanded by 0.1% a year on average, a rate at which it takes nearly a millennium ...

Since 2015, when the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were introduced, trillions of dollars have been invested in sustainability efforts, thousands of initiatives have been ...

Fears of a recession are back on investors’ minds. But predicting the onset of an economic downturn, let alone the length and severity of one, is difficult even for the experts. As a rule of thumb, ...

A striking port worker stands at the entrance to the Port of New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 2, 2024. About 45,000 dock workers walked out at 36 U.S. ports amid fears of job loss in an AI-driven ...