Tag: Global economy

The US economy unexpectedly took its biggest plunge in more than three years last quarter, contracting at an annual rate of 0.1 percent and...

The report proposes a new global deal to world leaders to curb extreme poverty to 1990s levels by: - closing tax havens, yielding $189bn in additional tax revenues - reversing regressive forms of taxation - introducing a global minimum corporation tax rate - boosting wages proportional to capital returns - increasing investment in free public services

A massive trove of gold kept under lock and key five stories below Manhattan at the New York Federal Reserve has been undergoing its...

While the official US unemployment rate lies just above 8 percent, real jobless rates are almost three times that high in some states, with...