Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Alice Hill is the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. Priyanka Mahat is a ...

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. Wages, ...

Faced with economic disruption, Beijing is presenting itself as too powerful to succumb to U.S. pressure. It is also censoring criticism at home. By David Pierson Claire Fu and Vivian Wang China’s ...

Many of the structural forces that turbocharged American market performance are at turning points, leading to greater uncertainty in markets.

Beyond providing supplemental income for Mexican households, remittances—funds sent by migrants to friends and families in their home country—provide a stable flow of developmental finance to the ...

The U.S. economy could face slower economic growth over the next three decades due to weak population gains and increased government spending, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Thursday ...

IN A SNAKING line to use some cashpoint machines in central Damascus, patience has worn thin. Two men who have been queuing for hours in the winter chill for the chance to withdraw a maximum of $30 ...

Just 20 days ago, the US stock market was sitting at all-time highs. The US economy appeared to be growing at a solid pace. And a recession was nowhere in sight. Now, the R-word is seemingly ...