Unlike the fallout from the 2008/9 global financial crisis, improving the healthcare sectors across the world should not retard economic growth.
Italy’s New Coalition Faces Tough Choices
Italy has moved—again—in the direction of stability in the short term, while facing long-term fragility of its economic and financial situation.
Health Consequences of Overwork
Death by overwork affects not only the families of the deceased, but also the industries they worked in and the national economy.
How the German Economy Is Falling Behind
With growth deteriorating, the day of reckoning for Germany’s economic policymakers is approaching fast.
In Charts: Checking Up on Germany
A collection of charts, maps and graphs exploring Germany.
China’s “Interesting Times”
As China rings in the New Year, a brief look at some of the problems the country is facing.
A World of Financial Gloom and Doom?
Why financial markets in 2019 may offer positive surprises, despite — and actually because of — the current wave of pessimism.
The Deteriorating US Economy
Economists cannot say with precision when the next U.S. recession will begin. But there is no reasonable doubt that the U.S. economy will weaken in 2019.