global economy

Your Fitness Wearable Can't Help You Lose Weight

By The Aspen Institute

The Developed World Is Missing the Point on Modern Slavery

By Chandran Nair

What Anxiety Over Brexit Tells Us About the Markets

By Rana Foroohar

Trump and Sanders Have Tapped Into a Dangerous--and Wrong--Anti-Trade Sentiment

By Ian Bremmer
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Here Are the World's 'Most Miserable' Economies

The top ranked country has a 98.3% inflation rate

By Justin Worland

These 5 Facts Explain the Unstable Global Middle Class

The growth of a global middle class is one of the great successes of globalization. But rising quality of life begets rising expectations that many governments are ill-equipped to manage. In an interconnected global economy,...

By Ian Bremmer

Made In China: The Next Global Recession

The world has gotten richer, but it’s also more inter­dependent—and likely to suffer

By Rana Foroohar

Low Oil Prices Threaten Global Currency Rates

Gas prices are seeing a slippery slope for 2016, and that's not a good sign for oil-producing countries

By Nick Cunningham / Oilprice.com

Here Are 5 Pope Francis Quotes On the Economy and Inequality

He has spoken out against 'the idolatry of money'

By Tom Huddleston, Jr. / Fortune

A Japanese Day Trader Made $34 Million In the Market This Week

Not everyone's afraid of volatility

By Chris Matthews / Fortune

IMF Chief Christine Lagarde: Female Equality Laws Are Good For the Economy

Notes GDPs would increase dramatically if laws changed to make it easier for women to work

By Charlotte Alter

The Unbeatable U.S. Dollar

All hail the almighty greenback!

By Michael Schuman

Hong Kong Economy Key in Protests

The city can't remain a global financial center without its own political process

By Michael Schuman

This Chart Shows How China Just Surpassed the US

But analysts warn that China's growing appetite for debt coincides with a growing appetite for risk

By Dan Kedmey

China's Property Bust May Drag Us All Down

Analysts have warned for years that China is in the midst of a gargantuan property bubble and the inevitable reckoning may have finally arrived as massive oversupply and a tightening of credit appears to be crushing the market—with consequences for the global economy

By Michael Schuman and Chengcheng Jiang

The Poor Are Losing the Global Class War

Although they say they're concerned about inequality, economic policymakers continue to pummel low-income families and the jobless, and that’s bad for all of us

By Michael Schuman

The Emerging Markets Era Is Over

For a couple of years now, one of my very smartest sources, Ruchir Sharma, head of emerging markets at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, has been saying that the emerging market story was over. Coming from...

By Rana Foroohar

What Ukraine Means for the Markets

Global markets have been falling on worries over conflict in the Ukraine. Is this the end of the multi-year bull market that has taken stocks to record highs recently? In a word no, but there...

By Rana Foroohar

Global Investors Got High on Emerging Markets: Now for the Comedown

The world is now paying the price for irrational exuberance over developing economies

By Michael Schuman
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