The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, “Rethinking Economic Growth,” by Dan Varroney. The United States is the largest and most productive economy in the world, by a wide margin. But ...

It is a favourite trick of politicians to promise economic growth to flatter their budget forecasts. Debt is only one-half of the debt-to-GDP ratio; increasing output can be as good as shrinking what ...

The United Nations is forecasting that the global economy will grow by 2.7% this year. That's slightly lower than last year’s ...

Connecting the dots: US economic growth in 2025 is being driven by an unprecedented surge in AI-related infrastructure spending – an inversion of the forces that have long powered expansion. The boom ...

Mr. Furman, a contributing Opinion writer, was the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017. Economic data never tells a perfectly clear story, but lately the ...