According to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) October 2025 outlook, the 2026 world economy faces a delicate balancing act. The global expansion that characterized the early 2020s has entered a ...

Thailand, the second largest economy in Southeast Asia, welcomed 30.2 million foreign visitors as of Dec. 7, a 7.19% decrease ...

The US economy’s comeback in the second quarter was just revised higher again, and economists estimate that momentum carried on in the third quarter, underscoring the resilience of the world’s largest ...

The nation’s biggest bankers proclaimed this week that the economy is sturdy, the U.S. consumer is healthy, and they haven’t seen much change in recent months. Yet they still sounded uneasy about what ...

An International Monetary Fund director warns that while trade is expected to stabilize, global uncertainty, rising debt ...

California kept its bragging rights as the world’s fourth-largest economy in the latest update on state-level business output. The Golden State economy was producing goods and services at a ...

The ongoing government shutdown isn’t just the longest in American history. It’s likely the most damaging, too. Historically, the economic damage from shutdowns is fleeting, quickly reversing when the ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...