When an economy unravels, it is not abstract charts that collapse but paychecks, savings, and the basic ability to buy food or fuel. I look at seven countries where fear is surging and where an ...

Dean Baker has earned a reputation for predicting economic catastrophe, and he tries to follow his own advice. After the economist warned of a stock bubble in the late 1990s, he rebalanced his ...

In the wake of Nicolás Maduro’s capture by U.S. forces, renewed attention has turned to the dramatic arc of Venezuela’s economy—an economy that has fallen farther, and faster, than almost any in ...