Here are four reasons the West is headed for a ‘very drastic crisis,’ according to a veteran economist

Markets seem to be in cruise-control mode, at least until the Jackson Hole gathering of central bankers at which the Federal Reserve may finally announce it will slow the rate…

Opinion: The looming stagflationary debt crisis will deliver a one-two punch to markets and economies

NEW YORK (Project Syndicate)—In April, I warned that today’s extremely loose monetary and fiscal policies, when combined with a number of negative supply shocks, could result in 1970s-style stagflation (high…

Lebanese farmers struggle amid toughening economic crisis | Business| Economy and finance news from a German perspective | DW

The agricultural sector has been hard hit by Lebanon’s economic crisis. The World Bank recently ranked the current situation in Lebanon in the top 10, possibly in the top three, of the most…

As economic crisis wears on, Lebanese can’t even afford manoucheh | Business and Economy News

Beirut, Lebanon – As increasing numbers of Lebanese families struggle to make ends meet amid the economic collapse, simple foodstuffs such as the traditional manoucheh are becoming a luxury that…

‘Our children are hungry’: economic crisis pushes Afghans to desperation | Global development

Yasemeen sits in the back of an open trailer with a bundle of her family’s old clothes wrapped in scarves and some used notebooks already full of a child’s handwriting.…