Articles by Erin Slifka

A slower recovery is forcing the region’s governments to extend loan-relief measures for already-indebted companies.

In the 1960s and 1970s, spiraling prices for staples like meat and gasoline wreaked havoc on the U.S. economy, thanks to political and policy mistakes that offer a warning for today.

The near-term finances of the Social Security program appear to have weathered last year’s recession better than many policy analysts had predicted, taking some pressure off the Biden administration and Congress to reach a long-term solution to keep them solvent.

As Western economies roar back to life, a fresh wave of Covid-19 clusters in Asia—where vaccination campaigns remain in their early stages—is creating new bottlenecks in the global supply chain.

The winner of the charity auction will join the Amazon CEO on the space company’s first passenger flight next month.

The pandemic is helping to soften the reputation of mining companies, often cast as villains.

Beijing is calling on tech giants to share the huge amounts of personal information they collect—and asserting its authority over data held by U.S. companies operating there as well. The efforts are part of Xi Jinping’s push to rein in the country’s increasingly powerful technology sector and use it to his party’s advantage.

The e-commerce giant taught us we can get everything tomorrow. Now small businesses have little choice but to comply, putting them in a bind: Raise prices, risking lost sales, or eat the cost of speedy shipping.

Lawmakers proposed a raft of bipartisan legislation aimed at reining in Big Tech, including a bill that seeks to make the e-commerce giant and others split into two companies or shed some of their products and services.