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The three questions driving the economy
Whether it was how artificial intelligence (AI) and President Trump's tariffs are impacting the economy or the future of energy markets, speakers at the event, sponsored by Tokyo Electron, touched on a variety of topics. Here are three questions…
Massachusetts tops WalletHub ranking of state economies
Massachusetts has the best economy in the country — at least according to a new WalletHub ranking released on Monday. After the personal finance company compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 28 indicators of economic…
Yuan firms as traders track Iran war, weigh strength of China's economy
SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT China's yuan strengthened slightly on Thursday as the dollar index corrected and traders weighed signs of China's economic resilience against the country's unattractive yields. Eyes are also on the US-Israeli war on…
How Restricting Girls' Education Damages Afghanistan's Economy
Continued restrictions on girls' education and women's labor force participation are violating their rights and weakening the country's human capital base — with serious consequences for future growth, public services and social stability…
China Is Attached to a Doomed Economic Model
Some economists assumed that the buying power of China's expanding middle class would ultimately fuel global growth. China has instead become a destabilizing force in the global economy. Chinese President Xi Jinping is running the country as a…
The 3 Bets On AI Coming For The Operator Economy
In April, a self-storage roll-up hired AI's first chief from Nvidia. The choice operators make next is a wager on one of three rival theses about how agentic AI actually reaches the back office. In April, a self-storage company in Raleigh, North…
Trump has made our K-shaped economy even worse | Steven Greenhouse
In case you're not familiar with the concept of the K-shaped economy, it's an important idea that captures a lot about Trump's America. Wealthy Americans are represented by the line of the K that angles sharply upward to the right, while the line…
Is the US Economy Dangerously Dependent on the Rich?
The idea of a “K-shaped economy” has become one of the most persistent themes about the US economy: While some households continue to thrive, in particular the wealthy ones, everyone else falls further behind. On this episode of…
Opinion | India Is Losing Its Economic Edge
Sadanand Dhume writes the biweekly East is East column on India and South Asia. He focuses on the region's politics, economics and foreign policy. Mr. Dhume is also a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously he was a senior…
Inflation and ICE fears threaten to dampen World Cup economic benefits
When the U.S. last hosted the World Cup in 1994, the event drew unexpectedly large crowds. At that time, soccer wasn't as popular among Americans as it is now, so expectations for attendance had been fairly low. So as the U.S. prepared to host the…
Prolonged energy disruption from Iran war would be severe blow to global economy: Research
A new economic outlook released Wednesday indicates that a prolonged disruption of energy supplies resulting from the war in Iran would deliver a severe blow to the global economy, likely causing countries to slip into recession and leading to…
Australia's economic slowdown is just beginning, the experts warn
Australia's economic slowdown is just beginning, economists warn, as interest rate rises and cost-of-living pressures weigh on households. The economy grew just 0.3 per cent in the first quarter of 2026, the Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed…
RBA boss says economy can weather war and avoid recession
Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock believes the country will avoid a recession even if oil prices continue to climb, while rejecting even the notion that Australia is facing a period of stagflation. On a day that US President Donald Trump warned…
Trump's Iran conflict: First geo-economic war of the 21st century
Trump asserts a right of exclusive U.S. control over Iran's energy resources on the basis of primacy: America is the world's largest military and economic power. From Washington's perspective, Tehran's decisions with respect to the use of its…
All These Galaxy-Scale IPOs Are Piling on Risk of an Economic Crisis
Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The United States is facing what's shaping up to be the largest series of initial public offerings in the history of the modern stock market. How they go is anyone's guess, but the…
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