America's Next Financial Crisis In our last post ("America's Next Financial Crisis"), we wrote about how one economist estimates that America's next financial crisis could lead to a 27% decline in ...

The map below shows change between 2009 and 2012 in economic confidence. In blue countries, people are becoming more optimistic; in red countries, more pessimistic. (Keep in mind that blue and red ...

Financial crises are the new normal in the current era, according to Yale economist Stephen Roach. A crisis arrives somewhere in the world on average once every three to four years, he estimated.

We’ve seen this story before. In the 2008 financial crisis, predatory lending and reckless financial guidance led to one of the worst economic collapses in history. More recently, crypto scandals have ...

Russian economy in crisis as citizens decry 'horror' price hikes in telling clip. The report predicts that passenger car ...

Ray Dalio, the founder of the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, warned in an interview on NBC News' "Meet the Press" about tariffs, growing debt and other economic and political concerns.

Venezuela’s inflation crisis worsened in March 2025, with consumer prices surging 13.1% in a single month, according to the Venezuelan Finance Observatory, an independent monitoring group.

Cuba. Cuba Liberalizes Economy as Economic Crisis and Protests Grow The island’s communist government announced it would allow foreign investors to enter its nationalized retail industry as it ...