COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020, and the coronavirus outbreak has since spread to over 192 countries and territories around the world, ...

Massive government spending to battle the coronavirus pandemic will push public debt to a record of nearly 100 percent of global economic output this year, but the run-up may be a one-off event if ...

In 2019, global travel and tourism contributed an impressive $8.9 trillion to the world’s GDP – a number so vast it’s hard to truly grasp but as a helping point, it looks like this written in full: $8 ...

When COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, it put travelers around the world into a frenzy. Those who were at home began working with airlines to cancel upcoming travel plans and try to guess a ...

Now that President Donald Trump has figured out how to conquer Covid-19 — at least that's what he keeps telling us with his talk of "rounding the final turn" — he wants you to know how he made the ...

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This paper describes one of the first attempts to gauge the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global trajectory of real GDP over the course of 2020 and 2021. It is also among the first efforts to ...

To date, lawmakers have not allowed the Medicare Part A trust fund to run out, and since it's hard to project healthcare cost growth, these projections aren't set in stone. But if reality follows the ...

In the early 1930s, the U.S. Senate enlisted a young economist named Simon Kuznets to figure out how badly the economy had been ravaged by the Great Depression, and whether policies were doing much to ...

The global economy has been facing strong headwinds since the COVID-19 pandemic including the world’s richest countries by GDP. The major economic issues include high inflation, high interest rates, ...

Inside China’s Rare Earth Empire: The Hidden Costs in Myanmar Vietnam today reported a record quarterly GDP contraction due to the impact of the country’s ongoing outbreak of COVID-19, which has ...

New commercial real estate development in the U.S. remains a major driver of economic activity, creating jobs, generating personal earnings and producing significant contributions to the national and ...