The acceleration principle is an economic concept that attributes fluctuations in capital investment to changes in consumer demand.

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President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have walked back from the ledge—again. But even as the world’s two superpowers deescalate a trade fight that had threatened to destabilize the global ...

Political risk has rapidly become a top-three corporate threat, directly impacting business operations and converging with issues like cyberattacks. Despite early warnings, a new report indicates most ...

The US EIA expects 32.5GW of new solar capacity to be added in 2025, alongside 18.2GW of new BESS. Image: Solar Media. On a global scale, the world is committing vast sums of capital to the clean ...

As a new prime minister seeks stability, three government shake-ups since last summer have already taken their toll on the French economy. By Liz Alderman Reporting from Paris Prime Minister Sebastien ...

France’s economic growth was resilient in recent months despite heightened political uncertainty weighing on business leaders, the country’s central bank said. The economy probably expanded around 0.3 ...

As the clock ticks toward a potential government shutdown at midnight on October 1, 2025, the looming crisis holds more than just economic consequences. It signals a deepening rift in the nation’s ...

TWO YEARS ago this newspaper outlined a vision of a “Ukraine 2.0”, led by reformers in government and citizens outside. We acknowledged that it had little hope of recovering its lost territory, at ...

In recent weeks, Western audiences encountered two starkly different portraits of China’s economic model. In his book “Breakneck,” tech analyst Dan Wang argues that China is an “engineering state” ...

Adam Smith has become the symbol of American capitalism, a champion of free trade and a free market. But it wasn’t always that way. In fact, it sometimes seems as if capitalism and America share the ...

President Donald Trump came into office with massive plans to overhaul the way the US government operates and consolidate power in himself. And he’s been largely successful in implementing that vision ...