consumption

When we take consumption to an extreme, we take more than we produce and we find ourselves in debt.

Commentary The Federal Reserve recently released a confusing signal to the market about their policy stance of being ...

Phoenix, Arizona, may be setting a plan in motion to ban meat. The city’s mayor, Kate Gallego, is ...

News Analysis A low-price auto campaign initiated by Chinese car companies and local governments has been sweeping throughout ...

Commentary The great economist Michael Pettis at Tsinghua University has noted for years the importance for the Chinese ...

By Gail Rosenblum From Star Tribune (Minneapolis)   MINNEAPOLIS -- Greg Rue remembers feeling "slammed" when Arc's Value Village ...

TOKYO—Japan's economy shrank slightly less than initially reported in the first quarter, as private consumption remained resilient in ...

BEIJING—China's economy has a lot riding on its consumers, who are just now emerging from lockdowns in Shanghai ...

BEIJING—China's first-quarter retail sales lagged in key coastal economic regions with areas hit by COVID-19 outbreaks showing particular ...

Recently I’ve been thinking about the happiest periods of my life, and what I might be able to ...

The word “boundary” has received an undeserved bum rap because we live in a civilization that screams “accumulate ...

The message of consumerism is fatally flawed, and it can't deliver the happiness it promises. But you probably ...

By Robert Finlay For more than two decades, corporate executives and business owners have been obsessed over capturing ...

TOKYO—Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda on Thursday stressed the bank's readiness to maintain massive stimulus, as the ...

HONG KONG—Hong Kong's retail sales climbed for the seventh straight month in August, helped by a stabilising COVID-19 ...

Commentary Part of the CCP’s 14th Five-Year Plan aims to expand domestic demand. However, the definition of domestic ...

News Analysis China’s reported GDP after inflation declined 9.8 percent in the first quarter, but data analysis reveals ...

Consumer spending, the main driver of the U.S. economy, rose slightly in January, giving a modest lift to ...

Global growth no longer keeps the pace of just a decade ago. Researcher Joergen Oerstroem Moeller points to ...

A sudden plunge in the price of oil is sending economic and political shockwaves around the world. Oil ...

Gas prices continue to steadily climb despite recent data showing a rise in domestic production and a drop ...