As the saying goes, there are no stupid questions. In that generous spirit, it’s certainly legitimate to ask why a continually growing economy is a good thing. Why does GDP have to keep going up?

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Since 2015, when the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were introduced, trillions of dollars have been invested in sustainability efforts, thousands of initiatives have been ...

Here’s a set of definitions for common and emerging economic and fiscal terms often seen bandied about in news reports.

The global economy is “undergoing one of its most turbulent periods in decades,” according to a recent World Economic Forum (WEF) report, with geopolitical instability, trade realignments, and ...

Investors are facing mixed signals from a cooling economy and expectations for continued corporate earnings growth. A surprise surge in unemployment has raised recession fears, but they might be ...

The Federal Reserve's June meeting came and went with few surprises. As Citi's head of equity US equity trading strategy Stuart Kaiser wrote in a note to clients, it was a "Blah FOMC" for markets as ...