Economy

Taipei, Taiwan – Taiwan’s crucial tech industry has been unwittingly drawn into Middle East politics after revelations that thousands of exploding pagers used to kill members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group...

Taipei, Taiwan – Imagine boarding a train that glides above the ground at supersonic speeds. Speeding through an airless tube using powerful electro-magnets, passengers could travel from San Francisco to...

Mateusz Morawiecki is the former prime minister of the Republic of Poland. I previously wrote in POLITICO about a trap I call “Europe’s Impossible Trinity” — what I see as...

Nothing Will Stop the Fed from Cutting The economic news that arrived as the Federal Reserve began its two-day meeting Tuesday suggests that the economy continues to grow more rapidly...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: China announces plans to raise its retirement age for the first time, Beijing abruptly ends international adoptions, and Goldman Sachs and Citigroup...

When former President Donald Trump spoke to the National Association of Black Journalists in July, he sparked outrage and said his opponent “happened to turn Black.” When Vice President Kamala...

Now that inflation has cooled, the Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates by at least 0.25 percentage points this week. That should be welcome news for all Americans...

Retail sales edged up by 0.1% from July to August, according to the Commerce Department. This modest increase follows a larger surge last month, which marked the highest growth rate...

U.S. consumers unexpectedly increased their spending in August, defying predictions that a softening labor market would drag down retail purchases. Retail sales rose by 0.1 percent in August and the...

Retail sales experienced an unexpected uptick in August, indicating more robust consumer demand as economic concerns continue to dog Kamala Harris’s campaign trail. The retail sales data, published monthly by...