On Thursday, Amazon, the online retail giant, announced that, contrary to analysts’ predictions and after months of financial losses, it had turned a profit in…
Economic growth
China’s two main stock markets, the Shanghai and the Shenzhen Exchanges, plunged more than 30% in recent weeks from their previous record highs of June…
Global poverty has halved over the last decade, but a staggering 71% of the world’s population remains low-income or poor, living off $10 or less…
A report issued by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) last Wednesday is confirmation that the financial crisis of 2008 was not a…
Some people talk about peak energy (or oil) supply. They expect high prices and more demand than supply. Other people talk about energy demand hitting a…
In light of how the International Monetary Fund has spent most of its existence parading around the world telling governments to make their economies more…
You may recall how in 2013 — and then again in 2015 — President Obama tried to give his economic vision a snazzy name, something…
Economic growth has bee at zero percent or lower for two or three years in a row in most of the western world. Cooked government…
Earlier this year, former Florida governor Jeb Bush travelled to my hometown of Detroit to explain his political philosophy. In a speech before local business…
Income inequality in many developed countries has reached an all-time high, according to a report released Thursday by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The…
With the gap between the rich and poor growing worldwide, a new study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published Thursday suggests…
Federal Reserve officials will probably cut their forecasts for economic growth when they gather again next month, though not enough to deter their intent to raise…