With interest costs outpacing defense spending, this piece will help journalists understand the public debt and explain it to ...

Measures the annualized change in the inflation-adjusted value of all goods and services produced by the economy. • 8:30 AM ET: Durable Goods Orders (May) - Forecast: 8.6%, Previous: -6.3%. Measures ...

Dementia affects over 57 million people worldwide—and this number is only projected to grow. By 2030, 78 million people are ...

The national debt already exceeds $36 trillion and is growing at historic rates. That has cascading consequences for the government and economy.

Your net worth gives you a snapshot of your financial health. To calculate net worth, subtract all your debt from your total cash and other assets. Assets include money in the bank, plus the ...

Ricky Mulvey: Berkshire Hathaway is sitting on more cash than any company in history. You're listening. It's Motley Fool ...

A smaller human population would emit less carbon, other things equal, but how large is the effect? Here we test the widely-shared view that an important benefit of the ongoing, global decline in ...

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The U.S. economy is mostly in good shape but that isn’t saving Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell from a spell of angst.

The rapid run-up in JGB yields spooked policymakers. In years past, Japan's central bank has come to the rescue in volatile ...

One of the first things economics students learn is the difference between microeconomics ... It looks at the relationships ...

Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, is a measurement of economic output. It’s the total value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country, region, or industry during a specified ...