Germany cuts its 2026 GDP forecast to 0.5% as Iran war energy shocks bite. A €500B stimulus package is Berlin's answer to the ...

US gross national debt hit $39.01 trillion in May 2026, with a 123% debt-to-GDP ratio fueling Bitcoin hedge narratives and ...

We can’t pop the champagne just yet, even if we wanted to. You see, the World Bank did not certify that every Filipino had become better off. It did no such thing. It merely determined that, on ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is coming under rare public criticism at home, a significant signal of how the pressures ...

Comfort means different things to different people, but when researchers try to measure it across entire nations, a handful ...

For many observers, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s speech on the future of NATO, delivered in Brussels on June 18, 2026, constituted a perfect ...

This paper estimates that the macroeconomic damages from climate change are an order of magnitude larger than previously thought. Exploiting natural global temperature variability, we find that 1°C ...

The United Kingdom’s Defence Investment Plan (DIP) has now finally been published after substantial delay and controversy, ...

Aided by a tech sector all in on artificial intelligence, Washington could be on track to outperform other state economies in ...

On the back of soaring energy prices, fears are rising that the global economy could be heading in a stagflationary direction – one where economic growth is weak and inflation high. On average, this ...

Washington's economy grew faster than any other state's in the first three months of 2026, fueled largely by its outsized ...

Assuming no growth in June, the industry-based output data suggest Canada’s economy will expand at a 2.3% annualized pace in ...