Thank goodness for the robots. The unmissable headline story of Wednesday’s national accounts is the stunning boom in capital expenditure in the IT sector, where the acceleration of the data centre ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

Walter J. Radermacher is a statistician at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, and former director-general of Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical office. Humanity’s inability ...

Washington quickly brushed off a startling milestone in a mounting problem. By Peter Coy For years, deficit hawks have been groping for ways to shock politicians and the public into getting serious ...

The U.S. national debt crossed 100 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) at the end of March, with signs that it might cross the record of 106 percent of GDP reached immediately after World War II.

The U.S. economy expanded at an annual rate of 2% in the first three months of 2026, slower than forecasters expected but a rebound from weak growth in the previous quarter, new government data shows.

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Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter. He's written hundreds of articles breaking down complex financial topics in plain language, emphasizing the impact that economic ...

Taylor Tompkins has worked for more than a decade as a journalist covering business, finance, and the economy. She has logged thousands of hours interviewing experts, analyzing data, and writing ...

Sources: Bloomberg; CEIC Data Company Limited; Wind; IMF International Financial Statistics database; and IMF staff estimates and projections. 1/ 2024 GDP will be revised to match official revisions, ...

Feb. 16 (UPI) --Japan's economy grew ever so slightly during the fourth quarter of 2025, government data showed Monday, narrowly avoiding a second straight quarter of contraction that would have met ...

China's GDP grew 4.5% in the October to December period, slowing from 4.8% in the third quarter. Full-year economic output came in at 5%, meeting the official target of around 5%. Retail sales grew ...