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 ...

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.

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

As the pandemic continues to derail the global economy, artists share works that reflect on uncertainty, capitalism and racial injustice. By Zoë Lescaze The Covid-19 virus has sent the global ...

It might be hard to believe, but summer is just days away — which also means we’re months into the crisis caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic. The 7 Mistakes That Investors Keep on Making ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

International lenders have pumped tens of billions of dollars into Egypt’s faltering economy amid the war in the Gaza Strip, but experts say the country’s economic crisis is not yet resolved.

The worst banking crisis since the Great Recession could severely tighten credit for U.S. households and businesses, taking a toll on economic growth. The turmoil that has engulfed the financial ...