Ian shares two charts showing two competing visions for how the global economy gets powered over the next several decades.

China and India have been placed at the top of the global real GDP growth chart and are projected to contribute 26.6% and 17% ...

Growing inequality reflects deeper physical limits on energy and resource extraction rather than purely financial or policy failures. Rising debt and higher interest rates are emerging as binding ...

UNTIL 1700 the world economy did not really grow—it just stagnated. Over the previous 17 centuries global output had expanded by 0.1% a year on average, a rate at which it takes nearly a millennium ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is forecasting a notable reshuffle in global economic growth for 2026, with emerging markets driving much of the world’s expansion. According to the IMF’s latest ...