Freya Beamish, chief economist at TS Lombard, the London-based forecasting firm, has spent her career tracking the global economy and warning of financial frailties. That makes her a useful guide ...

President Donald Trump's net approval rating dipped to -13 percentage points in a new poll by The Economist/YouGov. The poll surveying 1,625 U.S. adults from April 19-22 found 41% of respondents ...

What is the price of cool? About $31 a month, according to new research by Leonardo Bursztyn of the University of Chicago and co-authors. That is how much college students had to be paid to have ...

There's a simple reason tariffs have made a US recession highly likely, according to Apollo Global Management's top economist. That's because the impact on small businesses—a pillar of the US ...

Times are bleak in Toyland. So bleak that Bratz dolls’ flowing locks are at risk. “There is no American factory anywhere that can make hair for dolls,” fumes Isaac Larian, boss of MGA ...

In ancient Rome augurs were revered for their powers of prophecy. They found meaning in thunder, the flight patterns of birds, the behavior of domestic animals. Some augurs read the entrails of ...