With the nonstop talk of artificial intelligence (AI) as the next major technology that will shape the future of humanity, one of the key topics being debated is whether, in balance, AI will be good ...

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics releases some key employment numbers tomorrow for an update on job growth. Overall, the signs point to an economic slowdown, even though unemployment numbers remain ...

Official data put the annual growth rate at 4.8 percent, a sobering number for Chinese Communist Party leaders as they begin an important planning meeting.

The blueprint for the next stage of China's modernization is taking shape. It aims to enable the country to basically realize ...

With 1.2 billion young people in emerging economies reaching working age over the next decade—and rapid changes in technology reshaping workplaces—the urgency of finding scalable, sustainable ...

President Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner is raising concerns about whether her replacement could manipulate job numbers to work in his favor. The traditionally ...

OPEC’s history and rising energy and oil demand suggest that any claims of the organization’s waning importance, or indeed any predictions of peak oil in the coming decades, should be taken with a ...

It didn’t generate a lot of attention, but Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was asked at a press conference last month about “cutbacks” in federal economic statistics collection, and his ...