UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the world had entered an age of “reckless disruption and relentless human suffering” as he offered a pessimistic global outlook to world leaders gathered in New York. Guterres lamented “sovereign nations invaded, hunger...

Artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI have been quick to unveil plans for spending hundreds of billions of dollars on data centers, but they have been slower to show how they will pull in revenue to cover all those expenses. Now, the consulting firm Bain &...

The private market is experiencing a period of significant growth, defined by record level valuations1 and a recent surge of investor enthusiasm.2 Since the end of 2022, the value of the top seven private companies — The Private Magnificent 7 (“Private Mag 7”) —...

Investment bankers are cheering the recovery in US first-time stock sales. But the revival comes too late to halt a decades-long slump in the number of public companies amid the unchecked growth of private markets. The number of American public companies stood at...

The precise causes of the Great Depression remain a subject of debate, although, as economist Richard Timberlake observed in 2005, “Virtually all present-day economists . . . deny that a capitalist free-market economy in any way caused” it. At the time, however, the...

Bloomberg’s gauge of the dollar approached its lowest level since March 2022 ahead of the Federal Reserve decision, where policymakers are expected to resume cutting interest rates to prop up a weakening labor market. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index was little...