The U.S. economy wasn’t all that great in the first three months of the year. But it wasn’t terrible, either.

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This is a substantially tax-raising budget, but one that tries to obscure where the burden will fall. Rather than confronting the need to raise the basic rate of income tax, the government has opted ...

The world cracks and hurts under money. Financial crisis concepts. Last week, powerful politicians and business leaders gathered in Davos, promising to “unlock new sources of growth” to solve 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 ...

It is a favourite trick of politicians to promise economic growth to flatter their budget forecasts. Debt is only one-half of the debt-to-GDP ratio; increasing output can be as good as shrinking what ...

Trump administration officials keep making specific promises on economic performance. They keep failing to deliver on those ...

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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, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The “K-shaped economy” describes how wealthy Americans enjoy rising incomes and wealth while lower-income ...