Tag: economy

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's proposal to pour $1.9 trillion into a hobbled economy could lay the foundation for a surge in jobs and spending that many economists say is needed ...

The economy grew at modest pace as a growing number of districts saw a decline in job growth and a rise in inflation boosted by increasing input costs, according to the ...

SEOUL - Kim Jong Un's ambitious new plan for the next five years is aimed at developing North Korea's shattered economy, but the proposals may falter in the face of ...

Covid-19 is clearly the crisis that defined 2020, but millions of people were forced to grapple with natural disasters alongside the pandemic. A Biblical deluge of record-breaking Atlantic hurricanes, devastating ...

Do congressional Republicans want to prolong the recession to hurt President-elect Joe Biden?Four years ago, I might have judged any such conclusion to be too cynical. But after watching Republican ...

Iran has circumvented U.S. sanctions and exported more oil to China and other countries in recent months, providing a lifeline for its struggling economy and undermining the Trump administration’s so-called maximum ...

China’s digital yuan is introducing new functions to prove it can work just as well as paper currency—as well as offer the online convenience of the country’s two digital payment ...

In a speech on Dec. 1, president-elect Biden spoke about the need to “address the structural inequities in our economy that this pandemic has laid bare” and referred to the ...

For the past decade Ethiopia has boasted of one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, welcoming billions of dollars in foreign direct investment from the U.S. and China and lifting more than ...

President-elect Joe Biden announced Thursday that he has selected Brian Deese, a former Obama climate and economic aide and head of sustainable investing at BlackRock, to serve as director of ...