Economics

Despite high inequality, lagging productivity, and serious long-term challenges, the current election campaign has barely mentioned economic policy.

Big investors are starting to use a new metric to assess financial risk: rates of gender-based violence.

With a potential recession around the corner, it is worth remembering how regulators contained the last panic.

With more strategic investments, Japan may hold a key to sustainable development on the continent.

Europe’s biggest economy could easily stop its own slide into long-term stagnation—but it would prefer not to.

The rattled stock market gets all the trade war attention, but it’s the sharp decline in China’s U.S. investments that should alarm Americans.

A transcript of U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s remarks in Paris.

Despite Trump’s eagerness to help a post-Brexit Britain, plenty of obstacles stand in the way—and not just the usual suspects.

Trump’s puzzling move to ratchet up tensions won’t work, experts say.

The Trump administration’s obsession with trade threats, tariffs, and bullying both allies and rivals into submission was based on an ambitious theory. It turned out to be a fallacy.

Frustrated by the slow pace of trade talks, the U.S. president threatened even more tariffs on $300 billion worth of Chinese goods, rattling markets and sowing fears of slower growth.

Central banks have gone fully through the looking glass, and it’s time that everyone else followed.

French unilateral efforts to fix loopholes in global tax rules are adding fuel to the trans-Atlantic trade spat.