Data Shows US Economic Growth Is Up. So Why Are Americans So Miserable?

It is a favourite trick of politicians to promise economic growth to flatter their budget forecasts. Debt is only one-half of the debt-to-GDP ratio; increasing output can be as good as shrinking what ...

This is a substantially tax-raising budget, but one that tries to obscure where the burden will fall. Rather than confronting the need to raise the basic rate of income tax, the government has opted ...

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UNTIL 1700 the world economy did not really grow—it just stagnated. Over the previous 17 centuries global output had expanded by 0.1% a year on average, a rate at which it takes nearly a millennium ...

Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan questions India's strong economic growth figures, citing weak corporate investment and ...

Fears of a recession are back on investors’ minds. But predicting the onset of an economic downturn, let alone the length and severity of one, is difficult even for the experts. As a rule of thumb, ...

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Zero-sum thinking is outdated. The future of growth is inclusive, abundant and collective. Unsplash+ Our economic narrative has been hijacked by a dangerous falsehood: the notion that the economy is ...