Economic Outlook

In 2011, we’re emerging from a decade of global “value destruction and reallocation,” or what economist Joseph Schumpeter called “creative

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial panic, a coordinated global response by the world’s central banks averted a cataclysmic

At least since the 1980s, we’ve heard journalists and academics lamenting the decline of the middle class and the alleged

As we’ve begun to emerge from the Great Recession, one of the hottest debates in Washington involves the net effect

As the Trends editors have previously explained, the global financial crisis of 2008 represented the top of the most recent

Electric cars and dozens of other promising technologies depend on the availability of rare earth elements. There is no place