Global economic outlook for 2026 highlights steady growth, regional differences, risks, and cautious optimism ahead.

The global economy showed notable resilience in 2025, performing better than anticipated despite repeated shocks and heightened uncertainty. Trade flows continued to expand, and overall activity held ...

WASHINGTON, DC - International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Titled "Policy Pivot, Rising Threats," the IMF’s key forecasts and themes ...

The World Economic Situation and Prospects 2026 will present global and regional economic outlooks for the year ahead, highlighting the need for global cooperation and policies to support growth and ...

There are thinkers throughout history who offer grand overarching explanations of economic growth. Karl Marx was an economic ...

Because the U.S. has the world's largest economy, fluctuations in America's interest rates affect much more than domestic growth.

December labor market numbers show great strength in our nation’s economy: Some 216,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy last month, making a 2.7 million job growth in the year, the third-best ...

Central banks have embarked on austere monetary policy to crush inflation. Worries about the financial system, from bond markets to commercial property to the health of the banks, are ever-present.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gender and generational balance - in countries, companies & couples. In an era where global life expectancy continues to rise, ...

Economists sometimes present their discipline as the queen of the social sciences, a claim staked primarily on a superificial resemblance to physics: It has universal laws! Expressed in numbers! But ...

Contrary to what a booming stock market might be suggesting, troubles are coming to the world economy not as single spies but in battalions. The United States has a major public finance and commercial ...