Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am the President of Diversified, a CFP and author. When we hear the word "wealth," our minds usually jump straight to ...

The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded Monday to a trio of U.S.-based researchers, for their study of the institutional roots of wealth and poverty among nations. Ever since Adam Smith wrote "The ...

The wealth and poverty of nations has been a preoccupation of economists since Adam Smith founded the discipline 250 years ago, when he wrote a book titled, The Wealth of Nations. This year's Nobel ...

France is in a giant fiscal hole. This year the government will run a deficit, where its spending exceeds its revenues, of €160bn ($190bn, or more than 5% of gdp). Investors in its bonds are nervous; ...

THE AMERICAN stockmarket has see-sawed lately amid a flare-up in trade tensions, but remains near its all-time high. The surge, fuelled by enthusiasm around artificial intelligence, has drawn ...