For roughly 1,800 years, the world’s largest economy sat somewhere along the Yangtze River. A new chart from the Bank of America Institute — spanning 2,000 years of global GDP data — shows that ...

We’ve talked before about a geopolitical recession, that we’re seeing fewer global solutions to global problems. Is anything giving you hope that the world can still rise to the occasion? I was ...

The International Monetary Fund trimmed its global growth forecast for 2026 as the oil-price shock from war in the Middle East rippled across economies worldwide.

World Economic Outlook Update, October 2025: Three Essential Questions Global growth is projected to slow from 3.3 percent in 2024 to 3.2 percent in 2025 and 3.1 percent in 2026, with advanced ...