According to the Pew Research Center, approximately half of all American households are considered part of the middle class. This equates to roughly 165 million people. Typically, people in the middle ...

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EVERY FEW YEARS Foreign Affairs, a magazine about international relations, provokes a fracas in a neighbouring discipline, international economics. In 1994 it published an essay by Paul Krugman, “The ...

If you want to enjoy your retirement and not have to stress about working into your 70s, it’s essential to sidestep the pitfalls that loom during your working years. Ill-advised decisions can shrink ...

China is far from the first country to endure slowing economic growth following its ascent from agrarian poverty to middle-income status. In fact, middle-income countries are disproportionately likely ...

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Many of Latin America’s largest economies are stuck in the so-called “middle-income trap,” with slowing productivity growth making it unlikely that they will catch up to the top global economies in ...

After a turbulent 2015, China’s major stock exchanges took another hit in January. Chinese authorities have in the past clumsily tried to stop the free fall in markets with various degrees of success.