The U.S. economy is running on fumes, with tariffs, monetary policy indecision, and fiscal incoherence creating a combustible ...

Ray Dalio, Ken Rogoff, and Niall Ferguson are among those who are worried about a potential meltdown.

Vectors. Like diseases, ... US business defaults hit a post-financial crisis high of 9.2 percent with rates for highly leveraged private equity loans and junk bonds reaching the highest levels ...

T wo distinct vectors have intersected in ... It is tempting to see all this as the further unravelling of Pakistan’s long “poly-crisis” — a structural malaise encompassing economic, ...

Dalio, who had previously accurately predicted the 2008 financial crisis, drew attention to the collapse of the monetary order and significant changes in the domestic and global order.

Economic management of this crisis involved implementing import restrictions and raising the central bank discount rate to prevent a balance-of-payments crisis. As a result, economic growth ...

I’m about to turn 39 and we’re at the beginning of the Trump tariffs. It feels like it could be the beginning of yet another crisis for my generation.

Financial-crisis-era parallels seen as Steve Diggle returns to the volatility business Last Updated: May 30, 2025 at 11:29 a.m. ET First Published: May 30, 2025 at 2:30 a.m. ET Share ...

The crisis is threatening to destabilise the government, which may jeopardise the country’s fragile peace. South Sudan’s bad times started soon after independence.