Global growth estimates are falling as inflation inches up with the energy shock. Some of the best bets may be Latin American ...

The effects of the war in Iran are squeezing consumers, businesses and governments around the world, raising the prices of ...

The US and Israeli war on Iran is now a month old. In 30 days, the war has upended the world economy, affecting oil prices, ...

The conflict in the Middle East is reviving the specter of inflation and hobbling the global economy just as it was showing ...

Surging oil prices continue to ripple through the global economy due to the war with Iran.

The blockade has already kept about half a billion barrels of oil from the market and pushed up prices by around 40%.

The key macroeconomic theme of 2025 was the remarkable resilience of economic activity during a period of high uncertainty related to seismic shifts in US policy across a range of issues. The ...

From food to bonds to aluminum, six crises are hammering the global economy simultaneously as the Iran war enters its sixth week.

Welcome to the HBR Executive Agenda for March 19, 2026. Adi Ignatius is the editor at large at Harvard Business Review and its former editor in chief. HBR Executive delivers trusted insights and ...

The global fiscal landscape in 2026 is defined by a paradox: while the total volume of global debt has reached a staggering new record of $348 trillion , the actual debt-to-GDP ratios in many mature ...

For roughly 1,800 years, the world’s largest economy sat somewhere along the Yangtze River. A new chart from the Bank of America Institute — spanning 2,000 years of global GDP data — shows that ...