Economics

The Japanese economy has been living in a fantasy world for decades, and the U.S. economy could soon be joining it there.

Sort of. If you can call it that. Pity about all the lost billions of dollars.

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince will take money from investors in the national oil company—but he’ll be giving up far more than he thinks.

It’s crunch time for the biggest trade deal you’ve never heard of.

With eight bankruptcies in the last year—the latest this week—coal is in deep trouble again, and that could spell trouble for Trump in 2020.

Breaking up monopolies was the first step in fighting Hitler.

Argentina’s president, who is widely expected to lose Sunday’s election, had no options to save the country’s economy that would have let him stay in power.

With the global economy slowing, the world has a new acronym to worry about.

Ironically, the fight over impeachment could finally ease the way for NAFTA’s successor. But time is running out.

Field experiments now dominate development economics—often at the expense of the world’s poor.

The country is making the transition from net importer of ideas to net innovator, and as it does, it is finding that good patent laws matter.

The debate over how to best marshal the country's alternative energy sources may affect a new independence referendum.

Flashy summits between Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi don’t achieve much because India has a weaker set of cards than China. To change the game, New Delhi needs to hew closer to Washington.

Any expectations that high-level U.S.-China talks this week could produce a grand bargain on trade have all but evaporated.

Forget the energy opening: López Obrador works to restore the primacy of Pemex, the state-owned oil giant.

With U.S. manufacturing taking its worst hit since the Great Recession, signs of a global economic downturn are everywhere.

Xi Jinping’s rule could get very dark.