While France has a long history of hefty overspending, economists say political turmoil – which has stalled policymaking – is ...

The appeal is obvious. Immigration mechanically boosts GDP, spreading existing debt over more people. In the near term, ...

Voters are headed to the polls on the biggest primary election day of the 2024 cycle with one issue in particular at the top of their minds: the state of the U.S. economy. About one-third of Americans ...

The government shutdown is curtailing key economic data, including the jobs report, leaving the U.S. economy in a state of uncertainty.

Some political scientists see a pattern that suggests American democracy is being undermined in real time. The stakes are massive for the US economy and the business world.

According to economist Justin Wolfers, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is stuck in a policy dilemma created by the trade and tariff policies of President Donald Trump.

Farmers have struggled with the same business and family problem essentially forever: what happens to the farm when parents die. The conflict between fairness and equality has never been truly ...

In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world's major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates. Policymakers from South Korea, Japan and Italy, for example, have all adopted ...

Kamala Harris has a political problem bound up in an economic problem. Harris, the sitting vice president (and Democratic nominee), must convince Americans that the Biden–Harris administration’s ...

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Three and a half years in, Russia has failed militarily, even if Ukraine is bleeding, too. Mr Putin has not even managed to ...