A look at the five favorites to lead the US Federal Reserve, and what each pick would mean for the world’s biggest economy.

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By the end of March 2026 India will overtake Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy. But the country falls short on many other measures ...

"Blue economy" sectors face the highest financial risk. New report warns of economic threat lingering in world's oceans — ...

The argument that the world (and so the world economy) is in the process of fracturing is correct. Shearing is also right ...

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After a lackluster year for tourism, the U.S. is likely to see a jump in international visitors for the 2026 World Cup, ...

One might not think that Boeing and the Minneapolis Police Department have much in common, but they do. Both had longstanding unseen negative issues that suddenly exploded into public scandal and ...

Economists sometimes present their discipline as the queen of the social sciences, a claim staked primarily on a superificial resemblance to physics: It has universal laws! Expressed in numbers! But ...

Contrary to what a booming stock market might be suggesting, troubles are coming to the world economy not as single spies but in battalions. The United States has a major public finance and commercial ...