Zachary Karabell is an author and investor and writes “The Edgy Optimist” on Substack. The “affordability crisis” has become the economic touchstone of the day — widely touted, frequently debated and ...

Three days into the government shutdown, it’s increasingly unclear where the U.S. economy is headed — not because of a direct hit from the federal closures but a lack of official data. The absence of ...

A new GDP target concedes Beijing can’t pretend much longer.

Significant problems are confronting the Xi Jinping regime as the third plenum of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party meets this week to discuss the direction of the economy. The ...

In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world's major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates. Policymakers from South Korea, Japan and Italy, for example, have all adopted ...

When Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he likely did not consider that the war he was starting would last for years. That war has cost Moscow a lot of men and material ...