--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Economics ## Economics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Jun 23, 2026 ## [Remembering Alan Greenspan: the Fed Chair, Bookkeeper, and Bandleader](https://time.com/article/2026/06/23/remembering-alan-greenspan-the-fed-chair-bookkeeper-and-bandleader/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) by John Hope Bryant *  Jun 19, 2026 ## [How Ambitious Should You Be?](https://time.com/article/2026/06/19/how-ambitious-should-you-be/) [HEALTH](/section/health/) by Veronique Greenwood *  Jun 11, 2026 ## [Is Climate Change Making Your Life More Expensive?](https://time.com/article/2026/06/11/how-climate-change-is-making-your-life-more-expensive/) [CLIMATE](/section/climate/) by Simmone Shah *  Apr 10, 2026 ## [America’s Cost-of-Living Crisis Is Really a Pay Crisis](https://time.com/article/2026/04/10/america-cost-of-living-pay-crisis/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) by Arindrajit Dube *  Mar 19, 2026 ## [The War in Iran Will Worsen America’s Cost-of-Living Crisis](https://time.com/article/2026/03/18/gas-groceries-war-in-iran-cost-of-living-crisis/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) by Ryan Cummings and Neale Mahoney *  Feb 20, 2020 ## [What Happened to Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream of Economic Justice?](https://time.com/5783976/martin-luther-king-jr-economic-justice/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) by Michael K. Honey *  Jan 16, 2020 ## [Women Are Now the Majority of the U.S. Workforce — But Working Women Still Face Serious Challenges](https://time.com/5766787/women-workforce/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) by Tara Law *  Nov 21, 2019 ## [It's Time to Redefine GDP to Help Save the Planet](https://time.com/5735520/economic-growth-gdp/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) by David Pilling *  Oct 14, 2019 ## ['There Will Be a Recession. The Question Is When.' Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Robert Shiller Says a Recession Could Discredit President Trump](https://time.com/5697119/robert-shiller-recession-interview/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) by Billy Perrigo *  Oct 10, 2019 ## [Progressives and Business Leaders Are Going to War in Seattle, With Major Implications for the Country's Future](https://time.com/5695955/seattle-business-tech-progressives/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) by Alana Semuels *  Jun 24, 2019 ## [An Explosion in Philadelphia Could Make Your Fourth of July Road Trip a Lot More Expensive](https://time.com/5613174/gas-prices-explosion/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) by Bloomberg *  Apr 16, 2019 ## [Everyone's Talking About Basic Income. Here Are 8 Problems It Could Fix](https://time.com/5571472/basic-income-society-problems/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) by Guy Standing *  Mar 22, 2019 ## [Closely Watched Economic Indicator Signals Recession](https://time.com/5556839/yield-curve-inversion-recession/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) by Bloomberg *  Jan 30, 2019 ## [Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax on the Super-Rich Is the Wrong Solution to the Right Problem](https://time.com/5516903/elizabeth-warren-wealth-tax-income-assets/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) by Daniel Hemel *  Jan 30, 2019 ## [India's Main Opposition Party Is Promising a Basic Income for the Poor. Can It Work?](https://time.com/5515591/universal-basic-income-india-election/) [WORLD](/section/world/) by Billy Perrigo ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/"},"name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/economics/","name":"Economics"}}]}] ```