Economy Industry News
A collection of Economy latest news, analysis and best practices from top business influencers and the world's most trustworthy sources.
2026 Economics Nobel: How to keep an economy stable using policy tools
If the government and the central bank followed the dictum that the government should not intervene and that the markets will price things correctly on their own, inflation can potentially soar quite high. That would hurt most Indians, since they…
IMF warns global economy 'could soon test the limits of resilience'
The global economy “could soon test the limits of resilience”, as emergency oil stocks run low and government budgets become overstretched, the International Monetary Fund has warned. In its twice-yearly World Economic Outlook, the…
Why Readiness Is The New Economic Development Strategy
Jon Kramer, President, OHM Advisors. For decades, economic growth relied on a well-known strategy. Communities vied for businesses using tax breaks, inexpensive land and attractive development deals. Those tools still matter. But they are…
Nobel Prize in Economics Celebrates the Power of the Individual
The mysterious, Earth-moving forces of the free market's great invisible hand may very well be pulling the strings of the global economy, but the real power is in our own hands, in our everyday decisions to take the family out to eat, splurge on…
Nobel Prize for economics awarded to 2 U.S. academics
Oct. 12 (UPI) -- American economists Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford were awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics on Monday for their macroeconomic models for developing fiscal and monetary responses that can flatten out the peaks and troughs of…
The Anti-Trump Media and 'Economic Pessimism'
In a college psychology course, my class studied an experiment. This is an oversimplification, but the experiment went as follows. A group of college students was shown a paper on which a six-inch line was drawn. The paper was passed to the…
Nobel Prize for economics awarded to Hall and Woodford for work on 'smoothing' crises
Two US economists have won the 2026 Nobel economics prize for their work developing models that help central bankers and finance ministers to stabilise their countries, avoiding long recessions and runaway inflation. Robert Hall of Stanford…
Americans win Nobel for challenging government response to economic shock
Two American economic professors won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday for a development that reconstructed stabilization policy on microeconomic measures, which the committee said has helped “smooth out the economy's peaks and…
Americans Hall and Woodford win economics Nobel for stabilisation models
Americans Robert Hall and Michael Woodford were awarded the Nobel economics prize Monday for their work on how monetary and fiscal policy can better stabilise disruptive economic fluctuations. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The two were honoured…
Why CEOs Must Learn The Unit Economics Of Intelligence
Vaibhav Dani, CEO at Map Communications, specializing in enterprise AI architecture and digital transformation. For several years, companies have raced to prove they have an AI strategy—launching co-pilots, funding pilots, creating…
IMF Warns of Global Economic Setbacks as Shocks Test Resilience
The global economy has been remarkably resilient in the face of the worst energy shock in decades, but if borrowing costs and inflation go unchecked, a sharp slowdown looms, the International Monetary Fund said. In its latest World Economic…
Emerging Markets Growth Lags Developed Economies In September
Output growth in emerging markets was outpaced by the rapid expansion seen in developed economies during September, with the rate of increase unchanged from August. Business activity across emerging economies increased solidly in September…
Trump pushes $5,000 checks, warns of economic pain under Democrats
President Donald Trump has renewed his promise to give adult U.S. citizens $5,000 checks while attacking Democratic economic policies and arguing that Republican control of Congress would deliver direct financial benefits to Americans. In a new…
AI is keeping the economy afloat. The IMF says young workers could pay the price.
AI could help keep the global economy growing while pulling the first rung of the career ladder out from under young workers. That's the warning from International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva, who described AI as a…
WATCH: 2 American economists win Nobel for studying how to deal with economic shocks
STOCKHOLM (AP) — American economists Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford won the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics Monday for their work on models that have helped governments and central banks manage economic shocks, such as energy crises…
Receive a Daily briefing on Economy Industry News
Get Started