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.
Inflation is on its way up again, and it’s a top concern among voters in poll after poll. But it doesn’t require a survey to know Americans are stressed when their money continues to buy less. What should also capture our attention? The underlying causes. There are many, including the big-money pandemic relief programs that dumped huge amounts of government-borrowed, consumer-spent cash into the economy. It often didn't go to those who actually needed it. By now, there are tons of examples of...
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...
Four years have passed since the onset of COVID-19 and the global mishandling of the disease’s spread. Now, the same governments and international organizations that Read More
Six months of conflict have also taken a heavy economic toll.
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
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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 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
In 1992, Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton famously told American voters who were hurting because of a lousy economy, “I feel your pain.”
Let’s Be Honest: The Economy Is NOT Doing Well Authored by Connor O'Keeffe via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The American economy is not all right. But to see why, you need to look beyond the dramatic numbers we keep seeing in the headlines and establishment talking points. Money in a file illustration photograph. (Thomas White/Reuters) Take, for instance, the latest jobs report. For the third month in a row, the American economy added significantly more jobs than most...
A new, disturbing milestone has been confirmed in the latest Forbes World Billionaires List. The U.S. billionaire class is now larger and richer than ever, with 813 ten-figure oligarchs together holding $5.7 trillion. This is a $1.2 trillion increase from the year before — and a gargantuan $2.7 trillion increase since March 2020. The staggering upsurge shows More