The United Nations has lowered its forecast for global economic growth and raised the prospects for inflation in response to ...

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Tehran's hardline rhetoric belies a brutal reality facing the regime and Iranian citizens: its economy, vulnerable even before the war, is now in tatters.

For roughly 1,800 years, the world’s largest economy sat somewhere along the Yangtze River. A new chart from the Bank of America Institute — spanning 2,000 years of global GDP data — shows that ...

We’ve talked before about a geopolitical recession, that we’re seeing fewer global solutions to global problems. Is anything giving you hope that the world can still rise to the occasion? I was ...

UN report says US economic growth forecast to edge up to 2.0% in 2026 and 2.2% in 2027 In China, economy projected to grow by 4.6% in 2026 and 4.5% in 2027 Growth in India forecast at 6.6% for 2026 ...

The International Monetary Fund trimmed its global growth forecast for 2026 as the oil-price shock from war in the Middle East rippled across economies worldwide. The global lender sees the world ...

FOR YEARS the world economy has defied doomsayers. When the coronavirus pandemic struck, many people expected a long slump; instead there was a fast and inflationary rebound. When central banks then ...