THE world economy is not in good shape. The news from America and Britain has been reasonably positive, but Japan’s economy is struggling and China’s growth is now slower than at any time since 2009.

Potential output—the maximum amount an economy can produce over the long run—is an important indicator policymakers use to gauge a country’s current economic health and expectations for future growth.

Goran Roos is a member of the Economic Development Board of South Australia, a member of the Council for Flinders University and also a Stretton Fellow appointed by the City of Playford at University ...

Low-income Americans have missed out on the wealth effects that have benefited the highest earners. The Fed, which has played a role in what economists refer to as the K-shaped economy, can’t easily ...

A funny thing happened on the way to the current recovery: American productivity took a dive. Even as hiring and the general outlook have improved since the recession, productivity has failed to ...

Warren Buffet famously said that only when the tide goes out, do you discover who has been swimming naked. In Europe, the tide of very easy money is about to go out at the very time that the Italian ...

HOW do you solve a problem like Ohio? Over the course of a generation America’s once-thriving industrial heartland has withered. Economic stress has contributed to rising rates of drug addiction and ...

I fear that Noah Smith is being a little unkind to the Koch brothers here. No, not because I have any contact with them, nor because I'm just generally a neoliberal running dog lickspittle. But ...

NAPLES, Italy — Whatever hopes there were that a radically unconventional government might jolt Italy out of its economic torpor have mostly given way to bitter resignation that, in this country, ...

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A Supreme Court ruling that scraps Donald Trump’s tariffs — and refunds the import fees collected — would create a major “administrative problem,” the president’s top economic adviser said Sunday.

For the first time in 30 years, inflation is significantly chewing away at Americans’ buying power, hiking the price of gas, groceries, and rent. On Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released ...