• How immigrant entrepreneurs help create jobs and boost the economy

    Immigrants are much more likely to create a new business, studies show, and the knock-on effect is job creation.

  • Americans should be more optimistic about our economy

    Americans are down on the economy and believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. Yet the metrics of economic health are good, and our friends and rivals in Europe and Asia face more troubling prospects.

  • China's Economy in 3 Charts

    The Chinese government's report for the first quarter of 2024 was a mixed bag of cause for optimism and systemic issues that continue to drag on economic growth.Newsweek charts based on the latest data from China's National Statistics Bureau illustrate three key bellwethers of the world's second-largest economy.GDPAccording to the new data, China's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 5.3 percent year over year, slightly higher than Q4 2023 and beating many economists' expectations.Though...

  • Illegal immigration ticks down at the border

    Homeland Security reported a slight drop in illegal immigrants trying to sneak in across the southern border in March, suggesting the department may have turned a corner in the border chaos that’s reined since the start of the Biden administration.

  • [In This Economy] Is the Philippines quietly getting richer?

    We could be a lot more prosperous now if not for the myriad domestic constraints that keep pulling us back

  • Israeli and Palestinian economies battered by war

    Six months of conflict have also taken a heavy economic toll.

  • German economy returns to growth in April

    The German private sector returned to growth at the start of the second quarter, the latest HCOB ‘flash’ PMI® survey compiled by S&P Global showed, driven by a solid rise in services business activity. Although manufacturing remained in contraction, the rate of decline in factory production eased

  • LAUNCH | The Washington Forum on the Canadian Economy

    Apple CalendarGoogleOutlook. Date & Time. Tuesday. Apr. 16, 2024. 1:15pm – 2:15pm ET. Location. Online Only. This event will be webcast.

  • China's economy expands faster than expected

    China’s economy grew faster than expected in the first quarter of the year with help from policies and stronger demand, though signs of weakness in the troubled housing market persisted. The world’s second-largest economy expanded at a 5.3 per cent annual pace in January-March, beating analysts’ forecasts of about 4.8 per cent, data released on […]

  • The Brutal Cycle of US Immigration Policy

    Gaby Del Valle In Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here, Jonathan Blitzer examines how North and Central American migration moves in two directions.

  • Obi, Nigerians in Canada to discuss economy

    The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, and stakeholders in Canada have concluded plans to meet and brainstorm on possible solutions to the worsening insecurity and economic challenges in Nigeria. According to a statement on Monday, the meeting scheduled for May 3, 2024, at Hilton Garden Inn, is being facilitated by the Read More

  • Biden on the economy: 'I don't feel your pain'

    In 1992, Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton famously told American voters who were hurting because of a lousy economy, “I feel your pain.”