We may be witnessing something similar in the global economy, which, as with the environment, has suffered corrosive damage from systematic abuse by financial players and misguided government policy. Like climate change, the distressed and perhaps …

China could become world's biggest economy in 2016 In this Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013, photo, a construction crane towers over the skyline of Beijing. From the United States to Europe to Japan, central banks are pumping cash into economies and keeping loan …

Last week, UNESCO launched its Creative Economy Report 2013 in New York. It's a key document in a major reorientation of global cultural policy – away from creative industries and towards a more inclusive and sustainable creative economy approach.

The U.S. economy grew more swiftly than expected in the third quarter and recent nationwide employment and retail sales data have been surprisingly strong as well, confounding economists who had expected more disruptions from a 16-day government …

… Global Business Barometer. In the latest results, 41 per cent of the executives surveyed said they thought the global economy would get “better” or “much better” over the next six months, with 45 per cent saying they expected it to remain the same.

Ever since the price shocks of the Seventies, oil has had an unerring ability to play havoc with the world economy. This shouldn't entirely surprise, for oil is the basic feedstock, or energy source, for much of today's economic prosperity and wealth …

The data underscored the fragile nature of the global recovery and the difficulties still facing the world's biggest economies. Manufacturing activity and output rebounded in the United States this month, according to the Markit "flash," or preliminary …

But it's a viewpoint for an older world. It doesn't really hold any longer. The US economy can hardly be said to stand on its own when its principle supplier in consumer goods alone lies outside its borders and, more to the point, easy money has …

A new multi-disciplinary study led by the University of Maryland calls for immediate action by government, private and commercial sectors to reduce vulnerability to the imminent threat of global peak oil, which could put the entire US economy and other …