The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, “Rethinking Economic Growth,” by Dan Varroney. The United States is the largest and most productive economy in the world, by a wide margin. But ...

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 ...

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics for their work on innovation-driven economic growth, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. Mokyr, a ...

If you graph the history of economic growth, it looks a lot like a hockey stick laid on the ground with its blade sticking up. That is, economic growth was pretty flat for millennia, and then, around ...

What makes some countries rich and others poor? Is there any action a country can take to improve living standards for its citizens? Economists have wondered about this for centuries. If the answer to ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Executive discussing data. The economic outlook defies the slowdown narrative so common ...

This year, the development and spending around artificial intelligence has been perhaps the most significant business and economic story. AI spending is driving one of the most explosive periods for ...

War in the Middle East has upended the world economy, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday, warning in a report ...

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Senior Trump administration officials are forecasting a boom for the U.S. economy in 2026, driven by Federal Reserve interest rate cuts and historically large tax refunds. "This quarter — the first ...