China condemns Trump’s ‘tariff shocks’ at WTO, warns of possible global recession
US unilateralism 'threatens to upend the rules-based multilateral trading system', Beijing's envoy to the international trade watchdog says China condemned tariffs launched or threatened by US ...
The human mind is in a recession
Hello readers. For all the talk of artificial intelligence, the most efficient computer on Earth remains the human brain. It ...
Chancellor ‘still not satisfied’ despite surprise economic growth at end of 2024
Official figures showed gross domestic product edged 0.1% higher between October and December, confounding expectations for a ...
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B.C. premier says U.S. tariff could hit harder than 2008 recession, backs pandemic-style relief
The 2008 global financial crisis threw B.C.'s economy into reverse, going from three per cent growth in 2007 to a 2.3 per cent contraction in 2009, according to the province's annual financial ...
Anadolu Ajansi22d
Spain’s unemployment rate falls below 11% for 1st time since 2008
However, it reclaims a level of employment not seen since the second quarter of 2008 — before the effects of the financial crisis devastated the country’s labor market. The 2008 financial ...
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Starmer to drop Labour’s anti-growth policies in bid to avert recession
It comes after a string of economic surveys and data suggested Britain is at risk of falling into recession after the Government’s record £40bn tax raid triggered mass job cuts and damaged ...
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German economy in crisis: What can the next government do?
Two years into an economic recession, German businesses are sounding the alarm and demanding no less than a complete overhaul of economic policy after February's election. Lower energy costs ...
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Diane Francis: An 'existential crisis' of Canada's own making
In 1995, I interviewed Matthew Coon Come, who served as grand chief of the Grand Council of the Cree in Quebec. The Cree and Inuit have rights over the northern two-thirds of Quebec and rejected ...
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DR CONGO CRISIS: Security Council hears call for ‘urgent and coordinated international action’ over Goma
The Security Council met for the second time in three days on Tuesday over the escalating crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, with UN agencies and partners on the ground reporting ...
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The World Risks a ‘Financial Heart Attack.’ Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio Has the Medicine.
Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, says it is game time for heavily indebted countries to avert a debt crisis in the U.S. and elsewhere. Failing to take serious action risks ...
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Odds of U.S. recession declining: NABE economists
The U.S. economy entered 2025 with a steady hand, according to the National Association of Business Economics, a group of the nation’s leading economists, with the chance of a prolonged slowdown ...
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Recession fears grow as companies prepare to ramp up staff cuts
Fears of a recession are growing as business chiefs warned they will be forced to ramp up job cuts as Rachel Reeves’s tax raid hits growth. Bosses in the private sector said they expected a ...