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# global economy


## global economy


* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Sep 22, 2016  
## [Your Fitness Wearable Can't Help You Lose Weight](https://time.com/4504178/your-fitness-wearable-cant-help-you-lose-weight/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)  
by The Aspen Institute
* ![Rakib works in a parts making shop in Dhaka, Bangladesh June](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc5f1e2da2a10d904/69889883e20a8726ada9148b/gettyimages-531203430.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 20, 2016  
## [The Developed World Is Missing the Point on Modern Slavery](https://time.com/4374377/slavery-developed-developing-world-index-slave-labor/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)  
by Chandran Nair
* ![BRITAIN-EU-POLITICS](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6bd0914a90672ed/698898583c1639239145db1f/gettyimages-540687036.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 17, 2016  
## [What Anxiety Over Brexit Tells Us About the Markets](https://time.com/4372971/jo-cox-shooting-brexit-referendum/)  
[BUSINESS](/section/business/)  
by Rana Foroohar
* ![Sanders has been skeptical about the benefits of free trade](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbb71589c1eb32d0e/69888f07cd1bbab5957003ce/bernie-sanders-and-donald-trump-built-campaigns-against-free-trade.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 14, 2016  
## [Trump and Sanders Have Tapped Into a Dangerous--and Wrong--Anti-Trade Sentiment](https://time.com/4293567/trump-and-sanders-have-tapped-into-a-dangerous-and-wrong-anti-trade-sentiment/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Ian Bremmer
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Feb 4, 2016  
## [Here Are the World's 'Most Miserable' Economies](https://time.com/4207799/most-miserable-economies-venezula/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Justin Worland  
* ![Shoppers and pedestrians cross a road on Russell Street in the Causeway Bay shopping district of Hong Kong, China, on Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015. Landlords on Hong Kong's Russell Street a year ago could boast the highest retail rents in the world. Now they are](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt83d7f5a9828736f7/69887b40a988cab6cf6b65b0/china.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 29, 2016  
## [These 5 Facts Explain the Unstable Global Middle Class](https://time.com/4198164/these-5-facts-explain-the-unstable-global-middle-class/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Ian Bremmer
* ![Specialist Meric Greenbaum works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Jan. 4, 2016. U.S. stocks are opening 2016 on a grim note, dropping sharply after a plunge in China and declines in Europe.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb999e42f265d464d/698879075f570f3b86b1f2eb/falling-china-stocks-worry-us.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 14, 2016  
## [Made In China: The Next Global Recession](https://time.com/4180267/made-in-china-the-next-global-recession/)  
[BUSINESS](/section/business/)  
by Rana Foroohar
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Jan 7, 2016  
## [Low Oil Prices Threaten Global Currency Rates](https://time.com/4171085/low-oil-gas-prices/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Oilprice.com
* ![VATICAN-RELIGION-POPE-GERMANY](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc09c3de93a02765d/69886380a988ca2d896b452c/453214022-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 14, 2015  
## [Here Are 5 Pope Francis Quotes On the Economy and Inequality](https://time.com/4033790/pope-francis-capitalism-inequality/)  
[BUSINESS](/section/business/)  
by Fortune
* ![JAPAN-STOCKS](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4af4d1ff4996bf30/6988615a428a9e0edaccedb1/461066790.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 28, 2015  
## [A Japanese Day Trader Made $34 Million In the Market This Week](https://time.com/4014568/day-trader-market-34-million/)  
[BUSINESS](/section/business/)  
by Fortune  
* ![BELGIUM-GREECE-EU-EUROGROUP-FINANCE](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf1b63051bbf8782d/698780cc35ba6f63b0c073fb/463969814.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 24, 2015  
## [IMF Chief Christine Lagarde: Female Equality Laws Are Good For the Economy](https://time.com/3720652/imf-chief-christine-lagarde-female-equality-laws-are-good-for-the-economy/)  
by Charlotte Alter
* ![A man stands next to a money changer in Colombo](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta8a2a52893b0039c/698763d3f887dca49fe87d8e/rtr2ym7n.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 3, 2014  
## [The Unbeatable U.S. Dollar](https://time.com/3553962/us-dollar-greenback-currency-money-global-economy-treasury-securities/)  
[BUSINESS](/section/business/)  
by Michael Schuman
* ![Thousands of protesters attend a rally outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong as riot police stand guard](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd217959758172d41/6986a5c8d0b6f2069230659d/rtr47xw5.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 29, 2014  
## [Hong Kong Economy Key in Protests](https://time.com/3444164/hong-kongs-protesters-are-fighting-for-their-economic-future/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Michael Schuman
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Jun 17, 2014  
## [This Chart Shows How China Just Surpassed the US](https://time.com/2886946/china-corporate-debt/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Dan Kedmey
* ![A laborer works on the scaffolding of a construction site for a new residential building in Beijing on May 8, 2014](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt37ee0ac54d97148d/69868f46810bbb5fa5c9191c/china_apartments.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 15, 2014  
## [China's Property Bust May Drag Us All Down](https://time.com/98814/china-property-apartments-developers/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Michael Schuman and Chengcheng Jiang

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