Budget hawks have fretted for decades about America’s deficits and debt, repeatedly advising our government to embrace ...

For the moment, businesses, households and financial markets are locked in an elaborate game of wait-and-see. Companies ...

One is that Mr Trump is not serious: most of the “Liberation Day” tariffs that caused the crash in April were postponed; the ...

Several things have fuelled this rise, some old, some new. Britain has always benefited from a well-educated and English-speaking workforce that sits in a favourable timezone for working with both ...

President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, working its way through Congress, permanently extends tax cuts ...

W HEN CHINA’S prime minister, Li Qiang, announced in March that the country’s GDP growth target for the year would be “around ...

Producer price data for 34 industries that go into 350 economic indices—manufacturing for lime, ammunition and metal cookware ...

The most obvious economic consequence of bigger defence budgets will be to strain public finances. Debts are already high and ...

E ven before the bombs began to fall, Iran’s economy was in a bad way. Six in ten working-age people were unemployed. Prices ...

U.S. is bracing for an acceleration in inflation, with a significant depreciation of the dollar now identified as a key ...

Families will pay more for back-to-school essentials such as pens, pencils and backpacks ahead of the new school year.

Inflation was tame in May but President Trump’s tariff policy may cause consumer prices to rise noticeably heading into summer, economists said.