For low-income buyers, new predatory lending techniques may make it easier to get behind the wheel, and harder to escape a debt trap.

A new study finds that the social safety net leaves out the youngest workers.

While the U.S. still ranked first in economic performance, its overall ranking declined, according to Switzerland-based business school IMD.

A massive new study shows that companies that share profits and equity with their workers enjoy lower employee turnover and return more money for their shareholders.

Prime minister Jacinda Ardern has unveiled what is being called the world's first budget to prioritise wellbeing over economic activity

China is ready to use rare earths to strike back in a trade war with the United States

As autonomous vehicles proliferate, insurers face lower premiums

To have Trump commemorate the Normandy landings is to understand the word impostor.

The annual cost of child poverty comes to around $1 trillion. Meanwhile, every dollar spent reducing child poverty is estimated to yield $7 in the future.

The net worth of the average 18- to 35-year-old has plummeted 34 percent since 1996, according to new study from accounting group Deloitte.

Back in the 1980s, Japan was portrayed as the greatest economic threat to the United States, and allegations of intellectual property theft were only part of Americans' vilification. Thirty years later, Americans have made China the villain, when, just like three decades ago, they should be looking squarely in the mirror.

For the past 40 years, the United States and other advanced economies have been pursuing a free-market agenda of low taxes, deregulation, and cuts to social programs. There can no longer be any doubt that this approach has failed spectacularly; the only question is what will – and should – come next.

AT&T also cut capital spending despite promising $1 billion capital boost.

U.S. unemployment has hit a 49-year low, adding jobs in industries including construction, business services, and healthcare. According to the U.S. Labor Department, the U.S. economy added 263,000 new jobs in April, bringing the unemployment rate down to 3.6%. Last month marked the 103rd straight …

Americans are feeling mostly good about their finances, according to analytics firm Gallup. But while 56% describe their financial situation as "good" or "excellent," not everyone is as optimistic.

Statistics like this throw into sharp relief the challenge for Silicon Valley and its leaders in 2019.

There’s more proof that a surging demand for workers has local bosses paying up for talent. Southern California bosses increased pay at a 4.5% annual rate in the first quarter, the top wage hike among 15 major regions tracked by federal government researchers. The Employment Cost Index for Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties showed salary and wages in the private sector were up 3.1% a year earlier, No. 5 among the 15 big job markets.

Apple CEO Tim Cook was the commencement speaker at Tulane University Saturday. In his speech, the tech executive focused on the importance of addressing climate change and more broadly, in taking action, rather than debating endlessly.

France’s Yellow Vest protests are the latest Western uprising against rule by technocratic insiders. By Christopher Caldwell.

Trump on Sunday vowed to lift tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese imports to 25 percent from 10 percent by the end of this week if no trade pact is sealed between the world’s two largest economies.

We seem to be caught between parallel universes. You may have caught a glimpse of the first last week, when GDP was announced to have grown by 3.2% in the first quarter of 2019, a “blockbuster” result that the White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett told CNBC is “absolutely” sustainable in the coming months and years.

Journalism's dependence on part-time freelancers has been bad for the industry—not to mention the writers themselves.

The first step is admitting we have a problem, but what should come next to protect the planet?

Fraudsters are every year robbing Europe’s citizens of €50 billion in tax money. A Europe-wide investigation by 63 journalists from 30 countries, coordinated by CORRECTIV.

The Congressional Research Service says claims that the tax cut would turbocharge the economy were a scam.

Your introduction to the Mexican tomato crisis.

The European Central Bank this month said it would keep record-low interest rates for longer. The news comes shortly after the U.S. Federal Reserve gave in to the stock market and held off on further interest-rate increases. While investors celebrate the policy reversal, they might soon regret it. This stimulus may indeed buy the market an additional year or two. But postponing the inevitable downturn with artificially low rates will come at a cost. The cost is a massive credit bubble that is already of biblical proportions. Its implications chill me to the bone.

Women in Canada, Iceland, Taiwan, Australia, and the UK talk about their universal health care systems. By Clio Chang.

Parents are spending $500 billion a year supporting their adult children—more than twice the amount they’re saving for retirement. How to help your kids without imperiling your golden years. By Reshma Kapadia.

Hated by politicians, speculators and money-launderers, Andy Yan's data on Vancouver housing has earned him the right to say, 'I told you so.' By Terry Glavin. (Feb. 14, 2018)

How do twenty-somethings handle low salaries and high rents? With the help of a generous allowance.

At a truck stop in Ridgefield, New Jersey, driver Paul Richards reviews a notebook where he tracks miles driven and what he is hauling. His paycheck is down about 25 percent from the same period a year ago, and his weekly miles have dropped as well.

Every day, private equity companies snatch up firms and strip them dry. But there’s an alternative: allow workers to buy their workplace and run it themselves.

Economists in Milan and London are debating whether Italy is carrying so much debt that it might collapse into a Greek-style financial crisis. Their fear is that because Italy is so much bigger than Greece — and because Italy is one of the Big Three economies underpinning the eurozone — that the scale of such a crisis might be more difficult to contain this time around.